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Screwed by sex toy spying? You may get $10k

Users of an app-enabled sex toy cried foul after learning the device was uploading some intimate information to the company's servers without their knowledge.

Now the device maker will pay those customers up to $10,000 each.

Standard Innovation, makers of the app-enabled We-Vibe sex toy, was facing a lawsuit alleging it improperly gathered and transmitted "highly sensitive" information about its customers. The company has reached a $3.75 million settlement that will send up to $10,000 to each customer who used the vibrator and its companion app. Customers who used the vibrator but not the app will receive up to $199. The agreement was filed with a federal court Thursday.