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Vibrator Company Paid Out £2.4M Fine For Tracking Users’ Activity

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0:00 foreign [Music] company has to pay out four million dollars to customers after being accused of tracking people's use without their knowledge what why yeah dude right what's the big deal there's a Canadian brand called We Vibe right they've agreed to basically have to pay ten thousand dollars per customer whoa okay after they've sold these so-called smart vibrators uh which kind of inadvertently tracked their use and the whole point of it is because of a certain type of tech it wasn't like

0:50 specifically for data collection I guess so you would say it's probably one of those things where you could control your vibrator from the phone or some ████ and it could track off and it'll turn it on yeah the whole point is to kind of have that ability to be like intimate let's say let's say you're like traveling right let's say you're like in Europe or some ████ like that but you want to have a kinky mom with your wife she sticks the vibrator in and from your phone you can control and I'm like no you're the one with the phone Nick oh I'm eating pasta it's up his ass but in order to do that the tech would have to have like tracking and data and like location device services and other things like that or I need to know where you are the company was receiving that data and holding on to it in a way that were like uh this many times per use this level like Cindy comes in two minutes Sandra

1:41 comes in a 30 minutes yeah it's like that kind of data Nick pre-coms for 30 minutes I'm dribbling babe well there you go if somebody has that data what is that what are they gonna do with that what do they do like we're talking about was it like a GPS they're like they'd be cutting them coming over here coming over there coming over here have you guys been following the tick tock story China wants every piece of data apparently available ever stats therefore the a class action lawsuit was launched in Illinois against the sex toy manufacturer's parent company Stanford Innovation or standard Innovation and it was agreed that the company would pay a four million total with up to ten thousand dollars for customers who use the associated app as well as the vibrator and 200 for those who had simply bought the sex toy they must make

2:32 a lot of money man yeah can I ask how the customers were aware of the class action lawsuit yeah like hey you've been using this dildo like you need to get a mailer say Hey you hardcore using this dildo right now probably because if you if you signed up because they're like We Vibe we connect app or whatever you probably haven't put in something like your email yeah they probably had to take that that list I'm making it too large do you think when you open up the Wii Connect app it's like let's go it's probably like a Better Call Saul commercial type thing yeah oh yeah billboard trying to think of that the ████ the name of that retirement home but Better Call Saul stand for sandpiper though that's what it was I gotta watch it yeah description of the item red touch the screen to control the vibrations and build intensity tease and please with custom Vibes you create turn

3:22 on your lover when you connect and play together from anywhere in the world build excitement with secure in-app voice chat and video make it vibrate like ████ it in Saudi Arabian over here and you can speak into it like oh and then the ████ vibrator talks dude yeah it's Kamala Harrison don't count what the hell don't come don't When someone tells me not to it makes me want to even more 40 scene don't come oh ████ wow she says it with her her fist too all the way don't come like that that's what it sounds like to me because you want to break the rules oh yeah of course not so it was revealed it's VP dude it was revealed that the app enabled I guess so um it was revealed that the app was collecting and sending data back to standard Innovation including how often it was used and on which intensity

4:12 giving a fairly robust record of the user's intimate habits according to court documents around 300 000 people purchase bluetooth enabled Levi products while around one-third of those also use the app so I mean standard Innovation stress that the information only be used for Diagnostic purposes but I mean data apparently data is a huge deal you know what's the big thing like is the big deal it's not the stats it's just the fact that it has record of who is using it that's all I see it they probably didn't want to sign up for that they didn't want their name being associated with the fact that they use this thing but who cares if it's just Anonymous stats that's like those old school like porno infomercials like if you buy from us we'll use discrete labels discrete packaging yeah and I thought your credit card it doesn't say like ████ ████ college girls whatever it says like the blueberry Express or something

5:04 this sounds just it's so shady though bro yeah blueberry Express sounds like a stripper's name yeah or like Playboy's used to arrive like wrapped in like brown paper or the black paper bag a black plastic bag and you're like you know those are playables why would they be wrapped who's getting Playboys in the mail is the question a lot of it back in the day everybody wanted people didn't go to like like stores and just go get that ████ I had a I had a 70s Playboy that I was cutting up for a collage and then um the I looked at the you know the card that for how much to pay if you want to subscribe that ████ was 15 bucks for three years whoa 70s 70s that's a lot recently on JK we were talking about we were talking about the WWF remember China yeah how she had a huge quit and then the next day he sends me a Playboy of that he found of

5:55 China oh yeah in his house yeah what is a huge ████ his bathroom covered in jizz Pages stick it again so glazy I bought a box of like because I needed a bunch of 70s magazines and and I went to Long Beach antique market and there was a guy who had a box assistant 50 bucks yeah I was like what's in the box he's like just tons of I opened it up and it was just it was like penthouse uh Playboy like all those like 70s so play girl in there but then one of them was like from the 90s or early 2000s had China on it what a 70s Penthouse look like because I remember furry the original Penthouse they're the ones that are down to like spread the lips like on the cover yeah that you will see that but it's still mostly adds all of these magazines are mostly ads or or like uh columns it's like uh articles

6:47 any cool ads I remember cracking open a fresh Playboy and just like wow this is so cool it's like a video game and then each page it's like they're taking off an item of clothing and you're like wow wow but it was still so like PG-13 compared to like Hustler magazines oh yeah oh yeah it almost says cracking open though it hits different Playboy and Penthouse they never showed actual sex ever Hustlers and stuff was the ones I had didn't have no actual sex but the positions chicks are like ████ open their butt holes in the show it was like red shoe Diaries photo prints it wasn't really anything I remember in the military some of our friends had some crazy ████ it was like Euro smut or some ████ like that it was like those are some like liquor store bags though some crazy I was like what the ████ chick supposed to bowling pins and stuff like that it was like crazy ████ yeah there's

7:38 some crazier things but these were like gentlemen's magazines can you imagine back in the day someone actually like unfolded the centerfold like you're reading the magazine and then you're like you're watching people open Playboy like in what situation you're gonna be seeing that when I had a Playboy I for sure was looking at the ████ Centerville being like oh ████ damn like her ████ cooch is like right here it smells new older Playboy yeah it would be it would be a little bit more hairy it'd be like covering yeah there's lots of like hairy bush in those old ones and the super old Playboys that is very classy like I actually have one of those playable magazines but the really really old ones that had like the old school drawings in cartoon yeah that's just like it's almost like a table decoration it's funny because a lot they

8:30 have that now a lot at thrift store I mean like vintage shops yeah yeah antique stores yeah they used to do letters of the editor it was like some guy just writing titties and they have to answer them and they're like thank you for your thanks for your letter Eugene because most of the ads are like cigarettes which you never see cigarette ads anymore oh wow um or they're like like uh men's clothing or um or it's it's speakers like sound systems huge things yeah home theater systems like every other thing was like a home theater system like there was a sound bar killed remember like yeah remembering Boogie Nights had the dude who's like a home theater salesman thing that was huge in the 70s that's right massive everybody wanted home theater this is so weird big upsells yeah do you remember how the foreshadowing for that because like he's

9:20 selling the sound systems and at the end the sound system is such a huge part of that ████ scene yeah so good I love it surround sound I'm so glad you were in the ending to that movie what's that I'm so glad you were in the ending to that movie oh dude yeah I was the guy was the ████ the stunt cuff in the 90s midnight your monkey Mark's dick that was my first job in L.A were you 17 yeah everyone got arrested [Music]

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