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visio and the FTC have reached a settlement on those TVs that will watch you back the TV company has agreed to pay 2.2 million to settle charges the FTC made against them for collecting consumer information without user consent so what actually went down software and Vizio TVs could collect second by second data of what you were watching Vizio could then share this very detailed very valuable information with advertisers the feature was used to collect data from 11 million TVs the problem was it did so without user consent the FTC in New Jersey said that this practice violated consumer protection laws and they took Vizio to court for the data tracking software the court order also says it must obtain permission before any data is collected in future as part of the settlement Vizier will also delete all data collected before march first 2016 the practice was similar to programs we've seen from both Samsung and LG in the past so hopefully this settlement will set new standards for consumer protection in the future I'm Luke Lancaster and for more Upton minute tech news check out cnet com