A Canadian sex toy manufacturer has agreed to hand over $4 million to settle a privacy lawsuit after it was discovered its "smart vibrator," the We-Vibe Plus 4, secretly collected highly sensitive personal data.

A proposed class-action lawsuit against Canadian company Standard Innovation might come as a bit of a buzzkill for anyone who owns the We-Vibe smartphone connected vibrator.

An American woman has launched a proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian-owned maker of a smartphone-enabled vibrator, alleging the company sells products that secretly collect and transmit "highly sensitive" information.