Who Owns the Future? -
Find out how data mining is widening the gap between the upper and middle classes.
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Tuesday, 7 February 2017
quote [ Vizio got in trouble with the FTC this week and had to pay $2.2 million to settle charges around having monitored the viewing habits on more than 11 million TVs without consent over the course of two years. ]
$5 per offense. That's how much your privacy costs.
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hellboy said @ 8:19pm GMT on 7th Feb
2.2 million is nothing for that kind of contempt for customer privacy. Fuck those guys.
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mechanical contrivance said @ 8:30pm GMT on 7th Feb
I really wonder why the fine was so small.
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steele said[1] @ 8:43pm GMT on 7th Feb
[Score:1 Underrated]
Scale a Company Town up to a Conglomeration Nation and is it really that much of a surprise?
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lilmookieesquire said @ 11:07pm GMT on 7th Feb
$5 more Han I thought the government values it.
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mechavolt said @ 11:40pm GMT on 7th Feb
On the one hand, this is just a slap on the wrist. On the other hand, holy shit, $5 per offense? Normal consumer data is sold for less than a penny, so this is a relatively huge amount.
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maximumtodd said @ 12:32am GMT on 8th Feb
Don't worry the lawyers got their's.
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