Customers who bought a wi-fi enabled sex toy may be entitled to compensation following a class-action lawsuit.

Canadian firm Standard Innovation, has agreed to pay C$4 million (£2.4 million) to members of the public who bought and used its We-Vibe products - sex toys controlled via a smartphone app.

The firm, it was discovered, had been collecting data via the app, recording when customers had been using the sex toys, as well as information about the intensity of the vibration settings used. The data was collected without customers being notified.

The court filing, made on behalf of two anonymous female We-Vibe users, said: “Unbeknownst to its customers … [Standard Innovation] designed We-Connect to collect and record highly intimate and sensitive data regarding consumers’ personal We-Vibe use, including the date and time of each use and the selected vibration settings, and [to] transmit such usage data — along with the users’ personal email address — to its servers in Canada.”