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Web-Enabled Vibrator Class Action Put to Bed

The case against sex toy maker We-Vibe, which agreed to pay out $3.75m for tracking owners’ use, has finally been put to bed, with a judge yesterday signing off the settlement. Earlier this year We-Vibe’s parent company, Standard Innovation, agreed to fork out following a privacy infringement lawsuit, and also said it would ensure that personal information collected from users would be deleted. …



Court OKs Settlement for Owners of Sex Toys That Shared Details of Their Use

For those betrayed even by their sex toys, a reward awaits. An Ottawa-based company has agreed to compensate owners of its Bluetooth-enabled high-end vibrator, We-Vibe, for collecting data on how they were using the devices without their consent. The company, Standard Innovation, settled a class-action lawsuit last week in Illinois federal court.


We-Vibe Sex Toy Manufacturer Settles US Class Action for Almost $4 Million

The manufacturer of a bluetooth-enabled sex toy has reached a US class action settlement of almost $4 million, after it was found to be collecting intimate data about the way purchasers used the vibrator device. The class action against sex toy company Standard Innovation Corporation was brought in the federal court by two anonymous women in the US last year, in relation to the We-Vibe 4 Plus, …



Lawsuit Prompts Forest Service to Reinstate Elk Security Standard

Helena-Lewis Clark National Forest has decided to withdraw a controversial change in elk security requirements in the Divide area near Helena that sportsmen’s groups argued in a lawsuit could have negatively impacted big-game habitat. The Divide Area west of Helena includes about 155,480 acres of public land located in Lewis and Clark and Powell counties. In March, the Forest Service removed the Big Game 4a standard. That standard required secure areas for elk and other big game species on …


Delivery Drivers Sue Trucking Firms, Amazon as Joint Employers, Say Broke Law by Not Paying OT

A pair of former delivery drivers has filed a class action lawsuit against the trucking company that employed them and against Internet behemoth Amazon, the merchant whose cargo they were delivering and who they allege acted as their “joint employer,” saying the companies wrongly didn’t pay overtime, making them earn less than what state and federal law requires. In the lawsuit filed Nov. 1 in …


Lawsuit Over Cellphones and Cancer Hits a Stumbling Block

An appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday dealt a setback to a long-running lawsuit against the wireless industry over health concerns surrounding cellphones, deciding that a different legal standard for evidence should have been applied. The decision by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals will further prolong the litigation, initially filed in 2001, as plaintiffs must now produce …