Bought the toy, found the bluetooth connection was almost hilariously bad, gave up on it, but sort of assumed they were recording usage data and analytics because that's what you do.
It's odd, there's all these privacy and security scandals going on, and nobody seems to care about them. And then here it turns out that a mobile app that I logged into into is actually logging stuff, like every mobile app ever, and it's a huge scandal and a lawsuit and now a settlement?
I don't get it. I'm not even sure I understand what they were did that was wrong. I could understand a lawsuit over how crap their bluetooth was (I can't stress enough just how horrible it was), but over the fact that their mobile app logged usage? Really?
Newsflash: When you buy a vibrator from a vendor, they know you're going to use it. That's what people do with them. What next, a lawsuit that Amazon is tracking your purchases on Amazon? Man, do you think Facebook might have some logs of what you click on in the Facebook app?
> I'm not even sure I understand what they were did that was wrong
The original complaint states:
* "Defendant never informed Plaintiff that it would monitor, collect, and transmit her Usage Information."
* "Plaintiff never provided her consent to Defendant to monitor, collect, and transmit her Usage Information."
* "Plaintiff would never have purchased a We-Vibe had she known that in order to use its full functionality, Defendant would monitor, collect, and transmit her Usage Information through We-Connect."
The claims were based on potential violations of: "Wiretap Act", "Illinois
Eavesdropping Act", "Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practice Act;", "intrusion upon seclusion" and "unjustly enriched through its conduct."
Of particular interest to me was the "Wiretap" angle--my understanding is that the suit claimed that--because analytics were transmitted over the internet even when the app was used solo--the company was unlawfully intercepting the customer's command being transmitted over Bluetooth between the phone and device.
Bought the toy, found the bluetooth connection was almost hilariously bad, gave up on it, but sort of assumed they were recording usage data and analytics because that's what you do.
It's odd, there's all these privacy and security scandals going on, and nobody seems to care about them. And then here it turns out that a mobile app that I logged into into is actually logging stuff, like every mobile app ever, and it's a huge scandal and a lawsuit and now a settlement?
I don't get it. I'm not even sure I understand what they were did that was wrong. I could understand a lawsuit over how crap their bluetooth was (I can't stress enough just how horrible it was), but over the fact that their mobile app logged usage? Really?
Newsflash: When you buy a vibrator from a vendor, they know you're going to use it. That's what people do with them. What next, a lawsuit that Amazon is tracking your purchases on Amazon? Man, do you think Facebook might have some logs of what you click on in the Facebook app?