This category is for the improper handling of customer or employee data can lead to breaches, exposing sensitive information and violating privacy laws.
Data Privacy Violation • 7th Circuit Court of Appeals MeTV Embedded a Facebook Spy Pixel in Every Video You Watched EvilCorporations.com • Case No. 24-1290, 7th Cir. (2025) • 7 min read TL;DR MeTV, the classic TV streaming website, embedded…
TL;DR The Corporation: Global Tel*Link (GTL), doing business as ViaPath Technologies, a major player in the prison telecom industry, suffered a massive data breach. The Victims: Incarcerated individuals and their families—a vulnerable population whose most sensitive personal data was exposed.…
FTC Enforcement Action • Docket No. C-4802 Your Phone Was a Surveillance Device. They Sold the Recordings. EvilCorporations.com • FTC v. X-Mode Social / Outlogic, Docket No. C-4802 • 28 min read X-Mode Social and its successor Outlogic harvested precise…
The Data Trap: ITMedia’s Predatory Loan Empire TL;DR A sprawling network of companies under the “ITMedia” banner operated over 200 websites like badcreditloans.com, luring financially vulnerable people with promises of “trusted lenders.” They collected highly sensitive data including Social Security…
TL;DR SYSTEMIC FRAUD: Vivint Smart Home’s commission-only, door-to-door sales force engaged in widespread identity theft to sign up customers who failed credit checks. “WHITE PAGING”: Sales reps used a technique called “white paging”—finding an unrelated person with a similar name—to…
The Watchdog Was The Wolf TL;DR Avast, a company selling antivirus and privacy software, secretly harvested the detailed browsing histories of its users from at least 2014 to 2020. The software, marketed to “[b]lock annoying tracking cookies” and “[p]rotect your…
EvilCorporations.com • FTC Complaint No. 202-3196 • 21 min read Your Phone Was a Spy. They Sold the Footage. How data broker Mobilewalla built a billion-dollar surveillance machine from your GPS pings — and sold your most private moments to…
TL;DR Security camera company Verkada Inc. is being sued by the U.S. government for massive, systemic security failures that allowed hackers to access over 150,000 live camera feeds. The breach exposed highly sensitive locations, including psychiatric hospitals, women’s health clinics,…
The Betrayal Engine: Easy Healthcare Sold Your Fertility Data TL;DR The Facts: Easy Healthcare Corporation’s “Premom Ovulation Tracker” app collected deeply personal health data related to users’ menstrual cycles, fertility, and pregnancies. The U.S. government, via the FTC, filed a…
Marriott Data Breaches Exposed 300+ Million Guests to Identity Theft Corporate Misconduct Accountability Project Marriott International, Inc. · FTC Enforcement Order Marriott Data Breaches Exposed 300+ Million Guests to Identity Theft Federal regulators found Marriott and Starwood failed to protect…