2018 incidents

BlackVue GPS location broadcasting is the ongoing exposure of BlackVue dashcam owners' real-time GPS coordinates, live video feeds, & audio to anyone who creates a free BlackVue Cloud account. The…

The Brother DCP-L3550CDW printer requires toner cartridges with embedded chips for authentication. Some aftermarket (non-OEM) cartridges include battery-powered chips, which can lead to recognition…

The Cambridge Analytical Scandal involved the unauthorized harvesting of personal data from millions of Facebook users, which was then used for psychographic profiling and targeted political…

Corel still tells owners of Pinnacle Studio 16 and earlier to regenerate the activation keys they paid for at a website whose address no longer resolves. Those keys remove the watermark that Pinnacle…

The Red Shell Tracker is a tracker used in many popular games.[citation needed (6 September 2026)]

Verizon firefighter data throttling refers to an August 2018 episode in which Verizon slowed the data connection of a Santa Clara County, California, fire department command vehicle to a fraction of…

Verizon location data sale refers to Verizon's practice of selling access to its customers' real-time physical location to third-party data aggregators, who resold that access downstream to bail…