VIZIO to Pay $2.2M to FTC

Re:VIZIO to Pay $2.2M to FTC by CamperBob2 on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @08:09PM (#13594754)

when you first setup the TV it asks you for permission to do enhanced content recognition. If you say yes, it will enable the system - if you say no, the TV will never send data of fingerprints on the screen.

But how do I reconcile this with the article, which says it was done without consumers' knowledge or consent?

Someone's lying, which I'm sure you'll agree is always kind of annoying.

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Re:VIZIO to Pay $2.2M to FTC by samstave on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @08:23PM (#13594836)

This is my understanding and it's not the official opinion of anyone other than my own;

Iirc the statements were in the TOS to begin with, but it was not 100% obvious (meaning "CLICK HERE TO ACCEPT") yet I recall going through deployment heck to ensure that the TOS pop-ups were actually working... and we ensured this 100%.

The agreement was there, but it wasn't a button... We had to make a button, which was done.

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