High-tech sex toys record users' erotic habits

 High-tech sex toys record users' erotic habits

A Georgia woman trying to spice things up in the bedroom claims she's instead found herself in a sexual-techno nightmare, all because she bought a sex toy called Lush that secretly records intimate details about users' tastes and desires.To get more news about realistic butt masturbator, you can visit pinkkittytoys.com official website.

Her lawsuit filed Wednesday in San Francisco reads like the plot of a "Black Mirror" episode. Lush is a high-tech vibrator, sold out of California, that users can pair with their smartphones through an app called Body Chat. Through a Bluetooth or internet connection, the user or a partner can control the vibrator, increasing or decreasing the vibration intensity. As the product website points out, that can be done from inside the bedroom, across the table at a restaurant, or halfway around the world.

The company behind this "teledildonics" technology, Lovense, is owned by a Chinese company, Hytto Ltd. Unbeknownst to the Georgia woman and every other adventurous Lush buyer, Hytto has been secretly harvesting its customers' erotic proclivities: when they want it, how long they want it, and how intensely they want it, the lawsuit alleges.

Defendant programmed the Body Chat App to secretly collect intimate details about its customers' use of the Lovense devices," the suit says, "including the date and time of each use, the vibration intensity level selected by the user, and incredibly, the email address of Lovense customers who had registered the App, allowing Defendant to link the usage information to specific customer accounts."

The plaintiff, identified only as "S.D." in the lawsuit, says she bought her Lush in late 2016 for $114, including shipping. She's used it "on several occasions," but never would have done so had she known what Hytto was up to, her suit says. What's more, Lovense's marketing materials promise discretion, assuring that "absolutely no sensitive data (pictures, video, chat logs) pass through (or are held) on our servers." If customers wanted a high-tech vibrator without such privacy assurances, they could have gone with cheaper options, the complaint says.

The court document does not say how the defendant or her attorney, Rafey Balabanian out of San Francisco, know that the company is tracking and transmitting the usage data, or what the company might be doing with the data.

A spokesperson for the company told Courthouse News Service this week that Lush users consented to the collection when they clicked that they agreed to the privacy policy. "Users of our software and applications must agree to our privacy policy before using our services," the company rep said. "It clearly mentions the kind of data transiting through our servers."