"Smart" sex toy company sued for tracking users’ habits

It’s anonymous to everyone but Peter Perv in IT and his web-ring…until the time when (not if) the company’s third party data warehousing service is hacked, at which point it’s anonymous to anyone without an internet connection. Doesn’t bullshit corporate security doublespeak just give you warm fuzzies*?

*disclaimer, section 83, ¶32: exactly how many fuzzies it gives you and at what temperature can be purchased as a package with thousands of client fuzzy metrics which we’ve “anonymized” by placing associated emails and other personal information in an unexcrypted .txt file anyone can un-hide in file explorer. Blackmail? Spam? Dirty tricks? We’re your one-stop shopping for criminally negligent security practices protected by eighteen layers of shell corporations farmed out to a PO box service in Bumfuck, Idaho incorporated as an LLC under an assumed identity.

Funny. I’m really sick of the lack of availability of non-“smart” devices because greedy fuckers have found ways to monetize the intimate personal lives of their customers without meaningful consent by burying their intention to use them as unpaid labor in the arcane legalese of a EULA longer than the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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