This category is for the improper handling of customer or employee data can lead to breaches, exposing sensitive information and violating privacy laws.
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…
Investigative Report • Corporate Misconduct • Children’s Privacy Microsoft Harvested Children’s Data for Years Without Consent. Then Paid $20 Million to Walk Away. EvilCorporations.com • Case 2:23-cv-00836 / FTC Matter No. 1923258 • 1 min read TL;DR The violation: Microsoft…
TL;DR Park Happy, LLC, a Nashville-based private parking company, has been sued in federal court for illegally accessing Tennessee DMV records to harvest drivers’ home addresses (without their knowledge or consent) in order to mail them fake-looking “violation notices” that…
Hey LinkedIn Lunatics! Corporate Surveillance Investigation LinkedIn Exposed Your Private Messages To Train AI Models EvilCorporations.com • Case No. 5:25-cv-00709, N.D. Cal., Filed Jan. 21, 2025 • 30 min read TL;DR LinkedIn fed your private InMail messages to AI models…
Surveillance • Privacy • Class Action Puma Sued For Stalking Customers Across The Internet EvilCorporations.com • Case 2:24-cv-09468, U.S. District Court, C.D. Cal. • 10 min read TL;DR Puma embedded TikTok tracking software directly into its website, puma.com, and that…