“At Standard Innovation we take customer privacy and data security seriously,” a spokesman,<br />Denny Alexander, said in an email on Tuesday, calling the settlement “fair and reasonable.”<br />In September, he said, “we responded rapidly to concerns about app privacy and security.<br />We enhanced our privacy notice, increased app security, provided customers more choice in the data they share,<br />and we continue to work with leading privacy and security experts to improve the app.”<br />This latest class action reflects growing concerns over internet-connected “smart” products in the home that can get, well, too smart.<br />“Standard Innovation collected individual-level usage information – often tied to users’ personally identifiable addresses,” they said, adding<br />that the firm “breached its customers’ trust, devalued their purchases” and “ violated federal and state law in the process.”<br />What you need to know to start your day, delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday.<br />That, at least, was a claim made by two plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in Chicago against Standard Innovation, a Canadian manufacturer of “smart” vibrators<br />that allow users to remotely “turn on your lover” via a Bluetooth connection.<br />Last month, German regulators announced that they were banning sales of Cayla, a doll made by U. S.-based Genesis Toys,<br />because they said hackers could use it to steal personal data by recording private conversations over an insecure Bluetooth connection.
