Vizio agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle charges that it collected scores of customers data. The company tracked users through proprietary automated content recognition (ACR) software made by a subsidiary, Inscape Services. While that software has been turned on by default since 2014 on most of Vizio s televisions, the FTC alleges that in some instances the company remotely installed it on any previously sold televisions that didn t have the software. The software feeds Vizio a second-by-second transmission on what its consumers watch, regardless of whether its on cable, on demand, a streaming device like Google s Chromecast.
Source: https://threatpost.com/smart-tv-manufacturer-vizio-fined-2-2m-for-tracking-customers/123597/