TL;DR For six years (2016-2022), Ally Invest Securities “failed to preserve” at least 22.6 million emails about your money: trade executions, fund transfers, and account activity. This mass deletion of records allowed Ally to stonewall 39 separate regulatory inquiries from…
Amazon Mapped Your Face for a Lipstick Sale. The Courts Just Confirmed You Can Sue. TL;DR The Technology: Amazon’s “Virtual Try-On” (VTO) feature, used for products like lipstick and eyewear, captures the unique geometry of your face from your device’s…
Moxba’s Paper-Thin Safety Plan TL;DR Moxba Innovations LLC, a Missouri fertilizer manufacturer, was caught by the EPA operating with more than 10,000 pounds of toxic anhydrous ammonia without following basic federal safety laws. An EPA inspection found the company faked…
$1.1 MILLION: THE PRICE OF POISONING A DECADE OF AIR TL;DR The Facts: Anchor Glass Container Corporation, a major glass manufacturer, was caught in systemic violation of the federal Clean Air Act across multiple facilities in New York, Georgia, Florida,…
TL;DR THE FACTS: Alexander Investment Services Co., a FINRA member since 1965, was caught by regulators for failing to establish and maintain a system to comply with Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI). This failure has been ongoing since the rule’s…
The Price of a Pandemic Lie: $200 TL;DR The Facts: Illinois-based White Glove Sanitation Chemicals, Inc. sold over 2,400 gallons of an unregistered pesticide across seven documented instances between 2020 and 2021. The company also failed to file a mandatory…
TL;DR Mansfield Service Partners, operating as O’Rourke Marine Services, jeopardized public safety at their Houston facility by failing to label 18 containers of hazardous used oil. This violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) highlights a blatant disregard…
The Price of Poison TL;DR THE FACTS: Waste Corporation of Kansas, LLC, a Delaware-based company, was cited by the EPA for multiple violations of the federal Clean Air Act at its Oak Grove Landfill in Arcadia, Kansas. THE MISCONDUCT: The…
General Motors: A Multibillion-Dollar Privacy Betrayal TL;DR General Motors (GM) and its subsidiary OnStar systematically collected and sold massive amounts of sensitive driving data from millions of its customers without their informed consent. This data included precise geolocation tracked every…
A $32 Million Black Hole in the Customer Safety Net TL;DR The Firm: Vision Financial Markets LLC, a FINRA member firm, provides clearing services for traders and institutional customers, meaning they handle the backend mechanics of stock trades. The Rule:…