{"id":1208693,"date":"2023-12-04T15:16:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T20:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1208693"},"modified":"2023-12-04T15:16:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T20:16:55","slug":"judge-amazon-cannot-claim-shock-that-bathroom-spycams-were-used-as-advertised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1208693","title":{"rendered":"Judge: Amazon \u201ccannot claim shock\u201d that bathroom spycams were used as advertised"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GettyImages-1417525587-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"Judge: Amazon &#x201C;cannot claim shock&#x201D; that bathroom spycams were used as advertised\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GettyImages-1417525587.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1414\" data-width=\"2121\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/photo\/watch-the-toilet-inside-the-door-royalty-free-image\/1417525587?phrase=bathroom%20spying\">zhihao | Moment<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After a spy camera designed to look like a towel hook was purchased on Amazon and illegally used for months to capture photos of a minor in her private bathroom, Amazon was sued.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff\u2014a former Brazilian foreign exchange student then living in West Virginia\u2014argued that Amazon had inspected the camera three times and its safety team had failed to prevent allegedly severe, foreseeable harms still affecting her today.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon hoped the court would dismiss the suit, <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/district-courts\/west-virginia\/wvsdce\/3:2023cv00046\/235914\/24\/\">arguing<\/a> that the platform wasn&#8217;t responsible for the alleged criminal conduct harming the minor. But after nearly eight months deliberating, a judge recently largely denied the tech giant&#8217;s motion to dismiss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1988382#p3\">Read 14 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1988382&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1988382\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judge: Amazon \u201ccannot claim shock\u201d that bathroom spycams were used as advertised<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: zhihao | Moment) After a spy camera designed to look like a towel hook was purchased on Amazon and illegally used for months to capture photos of a minor in her private bathroom, Amazon was sued. The plaintiff\u2014a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1208693\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1208694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1208693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1208694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}