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Amazon files patent for wearable IoT wristband to track its warehouse workers - TechRepublic

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This week, Amazon was awarded two patents for wristbands that can track a warehouse worker's hands and monitor their performance.

From Amazon files patent for wearable IoT wristband to track its warehouse workers - TechRepublic

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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.

The suit does not name any of the plaintiffs, who allege that the features in Lovense's products allowed the company to collect and store 'highly intimate and sensitive data regarding consumers’ personal use of its vibrators.

Among these details are 'the date and time of each use and the selected vibration settings', according to the suit.

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

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