Vibrator Maker to Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use
I think this is a great example to the tech world of what people actually care about.<p>Your average American didn&#x27;t understand or get worked up over Snowden and the prospect of a surveillance state; not for long anyway. We don&#x27;t have much of a national conversation about it anymore, Obama isn&#x27;t remembered for his actions around the NSA, bulk collection, etc.<p>Most people also don&#x27;t seem to care too much about Facebook, Google, etc. collecting their browsing data and selling it to advertisers.<p>People very much care about the privacy of their sex life.<p>Did this company violate their own privacy policy?<p>It looks like the company settled rather than drag things out through court, but didn&#x27;t actually do anything beyond collect standard usage data.<p>The company didn&#x27;t even give it to third parties. So it isn&#x27;t that they did something worse than NSA Facebook, but that people are more sensitive to the privacy of their sex lives than other things.<p>We wonder why Snapchat first rose to popularity for sexting while most people couldn&#x27;t care less about GPGing their emails or using Signal day-to-day.<p>Either most people don&#x27;t care about privacy or we, the tech community, do a poor job of connecting things like encryption to what people do genuinely care about.