Samsung Sued Over Tracking Tags, Stalkers’ ‘Weapon of Choice’

Samsung Electronics America Inc. negligently rushed its SmartTag tracking devices to market without providing safeguards to prevent their use by stalkers and harassers, a proposed federal class action said.

Plaintiff Jane Doe alleged that Samsung ignored policy advocates and technology specialists who warned it should “rethink the product and consider its inevitable use in stalking.”

As a result, the company released an unreasonably dangerous product into the market, misrepresented the harms it has caused, and “facilitated the unwanted and unconsented to location tracking” of Doe and class members, according to a complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for ...