Privacy is such a 20th Century idea. Vizio TV buyers are becoming the product Vizio sells, not just its customers | Ars Technica
But for consumers, those competitive prices may come with a downside: becoming subject to targeted advertising and monetized personal data collection. As reported previously on Engadget, Vizio just posted its first public earnings report, wherein it revealed that profits from the part of its business that is built around collecting and selling user data as well as targeting advertising at users totaled $38.4 million in the quarter.
So yes, your smart TV is spying on you. And what you watch. Very much in tune with Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Don't connect it to the internet.
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