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Vibrator manufacturing company 'collected users' data' | Daily Mail Online

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A class-action lawsuit filed earlier this week claims that vibrator manufacturing company Lovense, based in Hong Kong, has been collecting data on customers… Among these details are ‘the date and time of each use and the selected vibration settings’.

From Vibrator manufacturing company 'collected users' data' | Daily Mail Online

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I was please to read that “the suit does not name any of the plaintiffs”. No kidding. But kidding aside, this example provides a stark illustration of what happens when there is no fundamental identity — and therefore trust, reputation and privacy — platform in place. And what’s more, it also tells us that the identity platform cannot be the kind of unsophisticated, basic platform that (for example) banks deploy. There’s a world of difference between logging in to the bank, where I need to prove that I am Dave Birch, and logging in to the sex toy 

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