Canadian Vibrator Maker To Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use

[Scottyjscizzle]

Does this count as rape?

No but without joking around, it's ethically wrong. It doesn't matter if they declare this in their manual in small characters or on a shady specific page on their websites. This should be printed on a paper in large characters on the toy, and you should have the option to opt out.

Perhaps voyeurisme is a better word.

I love the assumption the maker does anything with said data to any degree besides going "perhaps we need better water-proofing."

[gyrados]

everything that is connected to internet collects date on us im sorry folks but privacy is dead and with the coming boom of IoT its gonna get worse

[Xjev]

"Internet controlled vibrator."

That is like begging your privacy to get hijacked

[XDurionX]

This is disgusting.

What comes next, browser history shows the pages i've visited? DansGame

[Heladys]

I just wanna see someone assemble a botnet of millions of hacked internet dildos. Wait'll they fire that sucker up.

[Zandalarian Paladin]

I love the assumption the maker does anything with said data to any degree besides going "perhaps we need better water-proofing."

Would you agree to sit on a toilet that measure your sweat, skin contact area and body heat, along with genital positioning?

[Heladys]

Would you agree to sit on a toilet that measure your sweat, skin contact area and body heat, along with genital positioning?

Why not, if it results in iToilet 2.0 being a better crap?

[AwkwardSquirtle]

I love the assumption the maker does anything with said data to any degree besides going "perhaps we need better water-proofing."

You know there's one guy who's into it.
Anyway the issue isn't that they were collecting it, it's that they didn't tell people.

[Zandalarian Paladin]

Why not, if it results in iToilet 2.0 being a better crap?

yeah well I'll pay for the product after they gather their information thank you, I won't pay for a product that takes my measures so I can be sold another product later down the line.

[Yvaelle]

They can't not track it. That's how fucking data works people. You buy a wireless remote vibrator so you can control your partners orgasms while out of town, and that data has to pass through the internet for it to get to them.

Everything that passes through the internet gets recorded. By the company who makes it. By the NSA. By Google. Often by all the ISPs along the way. It's not malice, it's just how the information works.

WeVibing your partner is the same as sending them a dickpic. Computers share information. If you give your information to a computer, it will eventually end up on every other computer. Accept that, or stay off the grid.

[Independent voter]

And a week later you get a $20 coupon in mail from Stan the Proctologist for a colonoscopy.

[Deleted]

What the actual.. how can it even connect to the internet without me knowing? I mean it's not like Id give these things my wifi password..

[Zan15]

so i guess we can now sue the 100000 other places that track us in other area's besides our vag's?

[Halicia]

This is just a CIA leak and a statement from the Whitehouse away from being the best thing to come out of Canada ever.

[Cosmic Janitor]

They can't not track it. That's how fucking data works people. You buy a wireless remote vibrator so you can control your partners orgasms while out of town, and that data has to pass through the internet for it to get to them.

Everything that passes through the internet gets recorded. By the company who makes it. By the NSA. By Google. Often by all the ISPs along the way. It's not malice, it's just how the information works.

WeVibing your partner is the same as sending them a dickpic. Computers share information. If you give your information to a computer, it will eventually end up on every other computer. Accept that, or stay off the grid.

Bollocks. There is quite the difference between passing data along and storing it formatted in a database. If I send some random float values from my weather station then no one can actually do anything sensible with them because it could be anything, this here is quite different. They no what the data represents and they store it to utilize it.

[Yvaelle]

Bollocks. There is quite the difference between passing data along and storing it formatted in a database. If I send some random float values from my weather station then no one can actually do anything sensible with them because it could be anything, this here is quite different. They no what the data represents and they store it to utilize it.

And? Name a major company who sends data over the internet as part of their business model, and I bet you they store that data.

[Very Tired]

Freaking kink shaming jury. Don't they know a lot of women actually enjoy the feeling of being watched?