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Company: VIZIO, Inc.
Current Parent Company: Walmart
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Penalty: $1,000,000
Year: 2017
Date: February 6, 2017
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: VIZIO, Inc. agreed to pay New Jersey $1 million to settle allegations it violated consumer protection laws by surreptitiously tracking consumers' television viewing habits and selling the information to marketing companies and data brokers. This was part of a larger settlement involving the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC also announced the settlement; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: New Jersey Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: New Jersey
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Arkansas
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-discount stores
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