Do you own a Vizio TV?

If so, your data was illegally harvested and sold by the company.

www.engadget.com/amp/2017/02/06/vizio-smart-tv-viewing-history-settlement-ftc

 

How much am I going to get out of this?

 

"We've reached out to Vizio for a comment ..."

I hate that phrasing.

 

My parents' viewing habits are gonna be super boring to those people. "Looks like they sat around and watched The Golf Channel and that one interview show with Dan Rather. And then the 9 o'clock news."

 

I loathe the expression 'reached out.'

 

If this is handled like most class-action settlements, you'll receive a coupon for $1.12 off your next purchase.

 

Damn, I got a house full of Vizios (three, I think). I'm gonna be rich!

 

The lawyers will do OK, though.

 

If you're going to harvest my information for sale, you gotta give me something for it, like Facebook and Google.
It's like a virtual reach-around.

 

One of our TVs is a Vizio, but the most risque' thing I've watched on it lately is the maritally challenged real-estate team on HGTV's "Flip or Flop."

 

If my Vizio TV was a Smart TV, they'd be like "wow, this girl addicted to her HGTV. And to those true crime documentaries like Dateline."