Sex Toy Spying Victims Eligible For $10K Claim

In a rather disturbing turn of events, a recent development in the sex toy industry revealed that a company has been selling vibrators that are spying on customers. The fact that someone is collecting data on a user with such a private device is bad enough, but the thought of being spied on during the act is even more alarming. In compensation, those who were affected by the spying might be eligible to claim $10,000.

As it turns out, getting spied on reaped at least some form of reward, though there are a few things worth noting. The maximum compensation is only reserved for customers who bought the vibrator from Standard Innovation and used the accompanying app, CNET reports. Having those two elements together is what allowed the company to collect data on the users.

For those who only used the vibrator and didn’t even download the app, those customers will only be getting about $199. This will come out of the $3.75 million settlement that the company had to agree to after it was found out that its We-Vibe sex products were collecting data on customers and then sending them to the company’s servers.

This case has understandably caused a stir of concern among users who might be worried that the sex toys they are using are now being used to spy on them. In order to allay some of these misconceptions, the BBC reports that this is not the case for every product.

As mentioned above, the main point of contention has to do with using the vibrator and the app in concert. Without the app, the vibrator is only ever a normal sex toy.

Now, the next question that people might be asking is why sex toys would need apps, to begin with. The answer to that is all about convenience and keeping up an appearance of advancement. In the case of the We-Vibe, users could control the intensity of the vibration using the app while giving it an air of sophistication.