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Vizio is watching you (1 Viewer)
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SacramentoBob
Footballguy
They have lots of data on me jerking off then.
omahawildcat25
Footballguy
no different then what google or amazon does.
How the hell would a tv know these things sex, age, income, marital status, household size, education, and home ownership.
How the hell would a tv know these things sex, age, income, marital status, household size, education, and home ownership.
Aerial Assault
Footballguy
Darn tooting gubmint interferin' with my right to no privacy 
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According to the article I read, they captured the IP address and were generally able to map that to a physical address. With a physical address, or warranty registration filled out by the owner, much of this data would be accessible.
I think what disturbs me most about this is the small fine, effectively serving as a notification to other companies that they can go ahead with this kind of thing as they please. The government might slap them on the wrist, but they'll be allowed to keep most of the ill-gotten gains.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
My goodness, those hours of video of nosepicking, earscooping and wonderscratching will ruin me!!
Buddy Ball 2K3
Footballguy
Lets just hope there is a significant price drop on their TV's now.
otb_lifer
Footballguy
Buddy Ball 2K3
Footballguy
I want the P75 and I am willing to allow Vizio to film me while I watch Gilmore Girls on Neftlix if they can get the price down to $1,200.70" 4K going for $900 at WalMart
James Daulton
Footballguy
I'm going to start charging them to watch me.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Well they did pay a whopping $3.7 million fine.
That put a big dent in them - they won't be doing that again.
That put a big dent in them - they won't be doing that again.
TheAristocrat
Footballguy
Seriously, how don't you know this by now? Whatever your device, it is data mining you.
HellToupee
Footballguy
If you are afraid of this I wouldn't buy a Huaweei phone
Also, I should note that this is significantly different than what, say, an Amazon firestick or Google Chromecast do. Those devices obviously log what you watch through the device, but they aren't able to capture other viewing data.
For example, Amazon knows I watched Sneaky Pete through the firestick last night. They don't know that my son played an hour of Mario Kart on the Wii. Vizio was capturing the pixels rendered on the screen, so knows everything the TV displayed, regardless of input source. I imagine the lawyers here can provide more detail, but it should be clear that I have no expectation of keeping my firestick viewing choices secret from Amazon, when I literally had to log in to Amazon in order to view them. That's not the case with Vizio; I have every reason to assume that the information displayed on the screen was kept private.
I hope there's a class action suit over this and they get hammered.
TheAristocrat
Footballguy
You know those ToS agreements that you blindly agree to are going to get you every time. I seriously doubt that you can get around them for your supposed justice.Rich Conway said:
James Daulton
Footballguy
woah woah woah. Being spied on is a small price to pay for quality, low priced tv's.
Mister CIA
Footballguy
I like the 50" 2160p TV I picked up last week @BestBuy for $299. Plus taxes and a five year geek squad warranty, the total dent was $383.
MaxThreshold
Footballguy
ShamrockPride
Footballguy
No beating my meat here. Just countless hours of me harvesting my dingleberry crop...
