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Sex toy maker agrees to stop collecting intimate data
It can be quite costly to violate the privacy of sex toy users, apparently. Standard Innovation has settled a lawsuit accusing the company of collecting "highly intimate and sensitive data" from its We-Vibe vibrators without their owners' knowledge and sending it to the company's servers in Canada. The agreement will create a $3.75 million US ($5.06 million Canadian) compensation fund that will pay up to $10,000 US to buyers who used the companion We-Connect app, and $199 US to those who just used the vibrator. More importantly, the company has agreed to both stop collecting sensitive info and to purge the info it has collected until now.
Sex toy maker faces class action lawsuit over tracking
If you were creeped out by the thought of a sex toy creator collecting data about your usage habits, you're not alone. An Illinois woman has filed a class action lawsuit against the We-Vibe 4 Plus' creator, Standard Innovation, for allegedly violating laws covering everything from fraud through to eavesdropping and wiretaps. She had used the connected, couple-oriented vibrator "several times" before she learned that it was transmitting activity data like the intensity, mode and time of use. The company shows a "wholesale disregard" for privacy rights, the anonymous woman claims.
