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Sex Toy Maker Pays $3.75 Million to Settle ‘Smart’ Vibrator Lawsuit

Posted on March 12, 2017 by pogowasright.org

Jeff John Roberts reports:

Think twice about connecting those sex toys to the Internet: A vibrator company has agreed to pay up to $10,000 to U.S. customers who used a smartphone app that relayed their data to the firm’s server.

In a settlement filed Thursday in Chicago federal court, the Canadian company called We-Vibe agreed to pay $5 million CDN (about $3.75 million) to resolve privacy claims regarding “adult sensual lifestyle products” that transmitted customer data.

Read more on Fortune.

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