{"id":4942,"date":"2017-11-10T18:33:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T23:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2017-11-10T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T23:34:08","slug":"sex-toy-company-admits-to-recording-users-remote-sex-sessions-calls-it-a-minor-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/2017\/11\/10\/sex-toy-company-admits-to-recording-users-remote-sex-sessions-calls-it-a-minor-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex toy company admits to recording users&#8217; remote sex sessions, calls it a &#8216;minor bug&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/11\/10\/16634442\/lovense-sex-toy-spy-surveillance\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/11\/10\/16634442\/lovense-sex-toy-spy-surveillance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sex\/comments\/6nxxou\/fyi_if_you_bought_a_wevibe_vibrator_in_the_us_in\/?st=J9RFCMLF&amp;sh=78017a64\">Reddit user pointed out<\/a>\u00a0that Hong Kong-based sex toy company Lovense&#8217;s remote control vibrator app (<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.lovense.wear&amp;hl=en\">Lovense Remote<\/a>) recorded a use session without their knowledge. An audio file lasting six minutes was stored in the app&#8217;s local folder. The users says he or she gave the app access to the mic and camera but only to use with the in-app chat function and to send voice clips on command \u2014 not constant recording when in use. Other users confirmed this app behavior, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/11\/10\/16634442\/lovense-sex-toy-spy-surveillance Today, a\u00a0Reddit user pointed out\u00a0that Hong Kong-based sex toy company Lovense&#8217;s remote control vibrator app (Lovense Remote) recorded a use session without their knowledge. An audio file lasting six minutes was stored in the app&#8217;s local folder. The users says he or she gave the app access to the mic and camera but only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[716936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-11-it-risk","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}