Vizio to pay $2.2 million on smart TV data gathering

[dlevere]

Starting in February 2014, Vizio captured information on 11 million consumer TV's about information about what viewers were watching on cable, streaming services and over the air broadcasts without TV owners' knowledge or consent, according to a complaint from the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General. The agencies announced the settlement Monday.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/compa...ing/ar-AAmFVDZ

[bungholio]

At a glance when I saw the article online, I thought they were getting sued over their TV physically tracking peoples' movements or something as if it had some sort of built in motion detection thing about it.

[dlevere]

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