Lawsuit against Bose
In April 2017, a lawsuit were filed against the Bose corporation. At least one of the Bose headphones are designed such that it requires a mobile application to work. The application were researched by a company specializing in privacy concerns, and they found that the application send usage data to data brokers, which in turn sell this information to third parties without asking the user for permission to do so.
The type of data collected is information the music and podcasts you listen to, and at what times you listen to these.
