{"id":943,"date":"2017-02-08T09:28:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=943"},"modified":"2017-02-08T09:28:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:28:01","slug":"vizio-tracked-and-sold-your-tv-viewing-habits-without-consent-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/vizio-tracked-and-sold-your-tv-viewing-habits-without-consent-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Vizio tracked and sold your TV viewing habits without consent (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tl;dr version: Smart TV spies on your viewing habits. Well, the incentive for doing this is too great. Such detailed viewing habits can be a minefield for advertisers and marketing companies. Vizio was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/blogs\/business-blog\/2017\/02\/what-vizio-was-doing-behind-tv-screen\">caught by FTC<\/a> because it&#8217;s too brazen. Others may follow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to the original complaint filed by the FTC and New Jersey AG, the company worked with a third party to build smart TVs that could capture &#8220;second-by-second&#8221; viewing information about what&#8217;s on the screen. That includes details on content from cable, internet, set-top boxes, DVD players, over-the-air broadcasts and other streaming devices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/02\/06\/vizio-smart-tv-viewing-history-settlement-ftc\/\">Vizio tracked and sold your TV viewing habits without consent (updated)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tl;dr version: Smart TV spies on your viewing habits. Well, the incentive for doing this is too great. Such detailed viewing habits can be a minefield for advertisers and marketing companies. Vizio was caught by FTC because it&#8217;s too brazen. Others may follow. According to the original complaint filed by the FTC and New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}