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02-07-2017, 09:52 AM
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#1 | | I Will not Admit my Addiction to RS
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| TV maker unlawfully tracked viewing habits
TV maker unlawfully tracked viewing habits - BBC News
freaking sneaky and scary. im sure lots of revs. members own Vizio tvs Quote:
TV maker Vizio has agreed to pay out $2.2m in order to settle allegations it unlawfully collected viewing data on its customers.
The US Federal Trade Commission said the company’s smart TV technology had captured data on what was being viewed on screen and transmitted it to the firm’s servers.
The data was sold to third parties, the FTC said.
Vizio has said the data sent could not be matched up to individuals.
It wrote: " [The firm] never paired viewing data with personally identifiable information such as name or contact information, and the Commission did not allege or contend otherwise.
"Instead, as the complaint notes, the practices challenged by the government related only to the use of viewing data in the ‘aggregate’ to create summary reports measuring viewing audiences or behaviours.”
'Second-by-second'
The FTC said the data collection began in February 2014 and affected around 11 million televisions.
"Vizio collected unique data from each household with a Vizio smart TV that included not only second-by-second viewing information, but also the household’s IP address, nearby access points, zip code, and other information,” the FTC said in a blog post explaining the settlement.
"They also shared that information with other companies."
It added: "This settlement stops Vizio’s unauthorised tracking, and makes clear that smart TV makers should get people’s consent before collecting and sharing television viewing information.”
As part of the settlement Vizio agreed to more prominently tell its customers how data is stored and collected, and to seek firmer, clearer consent beforehand. The company has been ordered to delete the data it collected.
Smart TVs - sets that have additional features such as on-demand viewing or video calling - have raised privacy concerns before. In 2015 it emerged Samsung’s models were transmitting potentially sensitive voice data without users’ knowledge.
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02-07-2017, 09:57 AM
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#2 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Fukin Americans. Can't trust em.
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02-07-2017, 12:19 PM
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#3 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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ugh...i thought in the TV space it was only Samsung.
I forgot too rip out the mic when I had the back panel off mine last year.
Anyways, no point worrying unless you don't even use E-mail or a phone. I have no doubt CSIS is actively monitoring for sensitive keywords.
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02-07-2017, 01:51 PM
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#4 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
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Damn... Good to know since I just happen to be TV shopping...
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02-07-2017, 01:55 PM
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#5 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Just don't connect the TV to your internet?
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02-07-2017, 02:03 PM
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#6 | | Hypa owned my ass at least once
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Originally Posted by Great68  Just don't connect the TV to your internet? | and then you'd have paid for a useful feature that you now cannot use.
I actually quite enjoy watching YouTube on the TV. The only sucky part is, with one of my TVs, the YouTube app stopped working a long time ago when YouTube made changes to their playback, but the app wasn't / couldn't be updated.
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02-07-2017, 02:08 PM
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#7 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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meh...information i've probably given away already anyway 
...anyone selling their privacy invading 4K Vizio's?
i'll buy em 
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02-07-2017, 03:00 PM
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#8 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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02-07-2017, 03:41 PM
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#9 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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add a sticker to the camera lol
just like any other laptop i had.
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02-07-2017, 03:43 PM
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#10 | | Zombie Mod
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They're not watching you churn butter. It's just that they know you're probably churning butter because of the 'cooking' show you're watching!
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