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04-21-2017, 11:31 AM
Bose is acting shady with its headphones, lawsuit claims
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Turns out headphones might be as good at picking up information as they are at sending music into your earholes.*
An Illi**is man filed a class-action lawsuit (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3673948-Zak-v-Bose.html) on Tuesday that claims his Bose QuietComfort 35 wireless Bluetooth headphones — in conjunction with the corresponding Bose Connect app — collected the songs and other tracks he listened to and matched that information to an identification number linked to him. Bose then allegedly sent that information to a data miner k**wn as Segment.io, according to the lawsuit.*
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The lawsuit goes on to claim that other types of Bose headphones transmit the same data, and that this constitutes wiretapping.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/20/bose-headphones-wiretapping-lawsuit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Turns out headphones might be as good at picking up information as they are at sending music into your earholes.*
An Illi**is man filed a class-action lawsuit (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3673948-Zak-v-Bose.html) on Tuesday that claims his Bose QuietComfort 35 wireless Bluetooth headphones — in conjunction with the corresponding Bose Connect app — collected the songs and other tracks he listened to and matched that information to an identification number linked to him. Bose then allegedly sent that information to a data miner k**wn as Segment.io, according to the lawsuit.*
SEE ALSO: You'd better get used to seeing Apple AirPods everywhere (http://mashable.com/2017/04/06/apple-airpods-future/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The lawsuit goes on to claim that other types of Bose headphones transmit the same data, and that this constitutes wiretapping.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/20/bose-headphones-wiretapping-lawsuit/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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