[CamperBob2]

when you first setup the TV it asks you for permission to do enhanced content recognition. If you say yes, it will enable the system - if you say no, the TV will never send data of fingerprints on the screen.

But how do I reconcile this with the article, which says it was done without consumers' knowledge or consent?

Someone's lying, which I'm sure you'll agree is always kind of annoying.

[samstave]

This is my understanding and it's not the official opinion of anyone other than my own;

Iirc the statements were in the TOS to begin with, but it was not 100% obvious (meaning "CLICK HERE TO ACCEPT") yet I recall going through deployment heck to ensure that the TOS pop-ups were actually working... and we ensured this 100%.

The agreement was there, but it wasn't a button... We had to make a button, which was done.