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86Around mid-December in 2020, several hacker groups going by the names FIN11, UNC2546, and CLOP, infiltrated Kiteworks (formerly Accellion) systems using SQL injection, affecting organizations…
Advertising overload refers to the practice of not only integrating advertising as a source of revenue in software and websites, but also increasing the number of ads within platforms that consumers…
AirAsia is a budget airline based in Malaysia. In 2007, The New York Times described AirAsia as a pioneer of low-cost travel in Asia. As of November 2025, they serve Asia, the Middle East, and…
Alliance Laundry Systems and Speed Queen, a US-based company and subsidiary with systems rolling out across both north and south America has created an exploitative system with negative implications…
On July 3, 2025, Electronic Arts (EA) and BioWare announced the "sunsetting", or server shutdown, of their video game Anthem, with January 12, 2026, set as the shutdown date. Premium in-game currency…
The corner stone of Aotearoa/New Zealand consumer law is the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993. This act guarantees consumers five basic rights when buying goods. Goods must be - of acceptable quality…
ASUS laptops manufactured between 2020 and 2024, including the Zephyrus G14 and Strix G16 series, feature a hazardous battery connector design where a non-insulated metal sliding clip can easily pop…
In May 2023, ASUS removed a tool they provided for unlocking the bootloader of their Zenfone and Republic of Gamers (ROG) smartphones. This tool was mentioned in advertising to appeal to tech-savvy…
On November 6, 2019, Best Buy discontinued support for its Insignia Connect app. This resulted in major functionality losses for affected Insignia products that used the service.
Bloatware can be defined in two main classes: Pre-installed or bundled: Features not required by a system (physical or digital) to work properly, and/or undesirable programs. Software that has…
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…
Buffalo Wild Wings was founded in 1982 and is a American causal dining and sports bar restaurant specializing in alcoholic beverages and chicken wings. The company has been involved in various…
From 2001 to 2015 or 2017, Canadian retailers, including Walmart Canada, Metro, Giant Tiger and Sobeys, colluded to fix prices of bread.
Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company founded on July 21, 1994, and specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings accounts, headquartered in McLean…
Chamberlain Group LLC is an intelligent garage door opener company founded in 1954. They boast 50M+ homes with their products installed, and also offer commercial garage door opener systems.
In 2021, the EU passed the Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 ("Chat Control 1.0") on a temporary derogation from certain provisions of ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC (ePD) allowing providers to scan…
Cisco Meraki is a cloud managed IT infrastructure company. It was acquired by Cisco in 2012. Cisco Meraki devices include network firewalls, switching, wireless access points, and security cameras…
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and…
The click-to-cancel (CtC) rule is a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule, specifically 16 CFR Part 425.6, which requires that subscription services make it as easy to cancel the service as it was to…
Coffee Meets Bagel is a dating and social-networking service based in the United States, founded in 2012 by three sisters.
Data lock-in limits how device owners can access and manage data stored on the device they own. For example, some mobile applications store user data in a way they can only be viewed from inside the…
DAZN is a British-owned entertainment platform for sports broadcasting and streaming. The platform launched in 2015 and streams live and on-demand sport to over 200 countries worldwide. The service…
Dell, formally Dell Technologies, is a technology company focused on computers and computer infrastructure. They market themselves as "the world’s most essential technology infrastructure company for…
Derrimut 24:7 Gym, an Australian gym chain that is marketed as offering round-the-clock access (with "24:7" in both its name and domain), suddenly announced reductions to operating hours February…
Discord is a proprietary VoIP and instant-messaging platform developed by Discord Inc. (formerly Hammer & Chisel, Inc.), co-founded by Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy. Launched in 2015, the…
Discord is moving forward with mandatory age verification for many users. This decision comes at the heels of a data breach in October 2025, which exposed personally identifiable information of…
Many open-source software licenses require you to license your modified copies under the same license, thus maintaining the freedom of the end-user and preventing use of the source code without any…
The Spirit Blossom Morgana skin, released by Riot Games on June 25th, 2025, is part of the developer's new "Exalted" skin tier, marketed as ultra-premium digital content for the game League of…
At the start of the 2025 Formula 1 season, F1TV started limiting the amount of concurrent streams you could watch with F1TV pro (the highest subscription plan in 2024). At the start of the 2025…
Fandom, formerly known as Wikia, is a media conglomerate based in the United States. The website has more than 50 million user-generated pages, as well as other multimedia databases such as…
This wiki article outlines the consumer rights concerns and legal controversies involving FestingerVault, a digital service provider that recently underwent a rebranding to GrootMade. The brand has…
Wondershare, the company behind Wondershare Filmora, changed its licensing policy, causing controversy among users. Originally, lifetime licenses promised unlimited access to future updates. However…
Fitbit, now a subsidiary of Google, is a company that produces fitness tracking devices, some of which also function as smartwatches. They acquired Pebble in 2016, and produced the Ionic, Versa…
Flashforge (legal name: Zhejiang Flashforge 3D Technology Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese desktop & industrial 3D printer manufacturer founded in 2011. Between February 2025 and May 2026, Flashforge…
Forced User Agreement on Jetbrains IntelliJ software is an attempt to alter past fallback licenses. In 2025 company is trying to enforce new terms on software bought in 2024 or prior.What is the…
The Federal Trade Commission took action against Intuit Inc., the maker of the popular TurboTax tax filing software, by issuing an administrative complaint against the company for deceiving consumers…
Future Motion Inc. is a self-balancing electric skateboard manufacturer founded in 2013 by Kyle Doerksen.
Glance is an Indian AI-based[??] software company. The company was co-founded in 2019 by Naveen Tewari (CEO), Abhay Singhal, Mohit Saxena, and Piyush Shah with their headquarters being in Bangalore…
Google LLC, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, is one of the most influential technology companies in the world. Originally developed as a search engine to organize and index the growing…
Google has added some Android devices to their "Find Hub" network without the users consent, only informing them via email, and giving only 2 days to opt-out. There is supposedly an opt-out link, but…
Google Pixel is a consumer electronic device that Google develops and equips with specialized versions of Android or ChromeOS.
The Pixel Watch is a line of smartwatches developed and marketed by Google. The first-generation Pixel Watch was launched on October 13, 2022, and was first previewed in May 2022 during the Google…
Products referred to as "gun safes" are usually not "true safes" (UL 687), but "residential security containers" (UL 1037). The distinction comes from the certification/rating system established by…
Halfords Limited sells an Extended Tyre Warranty during mobile tyre fitting bookings, labelling it as a "Mobile Fitting" product in the checkout with no disclosure that it cannot be redeemed via…
The app makes it trivially easy to subscribe to the service, but it uses UI anti-patterns to hide subscription management options. Additionally, it has limited payment management options in the web…
In Spain, Hisense began to place unskippable and AI-personalized ads every time you changed the channel, the HDMI source, turned on the television and other basic things.
In 2024, there were stability issues found related to Intel's 13th and 14th generation desktop processors. Mobile 13th and 14th generation processors are not affected.
JavaScript (JS), not to be confused with ECMAScript (ES), is a programming language and core technology of the Web, alongside HTML and CSS. It was created by Brendan Eich in 1995. As of 2025, the…
I just bought C930e. To my surprise unlike my old c920 it does not have h264 hardware encoding. Using mjpeg makes video more noisy.
Microsoft Corporation was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is one of the "Big Five" tech giants, well known for licensing Q-DOS from Seattle Computer…
Recall is a feature of Windows 11 that records the user's activity using snapshots and allows users to retrace their previous activity., using Copilot, Microsoft's Artificial intelligence(AI)…
Microsoft Edge is a proprietary web browser developed by Microsoft, first released in 2015 as the successor to Internet Explorer. Based on the Chromium engine since 2020, Edge is marketed as a fast…
In a Microsoft Windows insider blog published March 28, 2025, under the section "[other] changes", the removal of bypassnro.cmd script was announced. This script is used to complete a new Windows…
On October 21st, 2020, Mojang announced that all Minecraft Java Edition users must migrate their Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts to retain access to the game. On December 18th, 2023, consumers…
Monoprice is a US-based online retailer specializing in high-quality electronics, accessories, and home entertainment products at competitive prices. Founded in 2002, the company has gained…
Recent MSI motherboards have moved on from easily accessible clip-mount holders for their CMOS batteries. Instead hiding the battery behind the voltage regulator module (VRM) heatsink assembly, and…
Nanoleaf is a company that specializes in LED lighting. It was founded in 2012 and launched its first products with Kickstarter funding.
Nike Adapt is a line of self-lacing smart shoes introduced by Nike, featuring app-controlled functionality. These shoes represent a significant innovation in footwear technology, combining…
Founded in 1889, Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a multi-billion-dollar video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan with multiple subdivisions outside of Japan. They manufacture video game consoles and…
Notability forces new privacy policy on users who already bought the app to train its AI on the users own writing and recordings. Users are locked out of the application unless they agree to the new…
Founded in 2020, Nothing Technology Limited (stylised as NOTHING) is a British consumer electronics company headquartered in London. They manufacture consumer tech products such as smartphones…
Okkazeo is a French company founded in 2007 that offers a consumer to consumer platform for board games enthusiasts. It allows board game owners to sell board games from their collections to…
Back in 02 August 2017, security researcher Dylan Houlihan notified Panera Bread of the breach that allowed hackers to access over 37 million customers personal information via its website, however…
PETKIT Pura Max 2 is an automatic litter box manufactured in China that connects to Wi-Fi. Users report that, upon leaving China, the company locks the device once it is connected to the internet.
PNC Bank is a banking subsidiary of PNC Financial Services and the product of a merger of two Pennsylvania-based banks in 1983, Pittsburgh National Corporation and Provident National Corporation…
Poland is a country in Europe, and a member of the European Union.
Samsung SmartCam's products are very well designed devices that record good quality videos and save them to a local microSD card in a compressed format. You can access your camera remotely using a…
The stated mission of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is to protect investors; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and facilitate capital formation.
The Pioneer DJ DJM-S11 software[Does it affect Pioneer hardware specifically or only Serato software?] previously allowed users to enable the "Make Audio Available to Other Applications" checkbox to…
Shopee Pte., Ltd., commonly known as Shopee, is an e-commerce website, founded in 2015 in Singapore, operating primarily in southeast Asia and Latin America. Shopee operates under Sea Ltd, which is…
SIG Sauer is a Swiss brand name of firearms originally manufactured in Neuhausen am Rheinfall. Several sister companies that design and manufacture firearms use the trade name SIG Sauer [ɛs iː ɡeː…
Sketchfab is a repository for downloading 3D models. It was created March 10 2011, and July 21 2021 it was bought by Epic Games.
The Sony X900H (XH90 in Europe) Television is a 4K LCD TV produced by Sony in 2020.
StayFocusd is a productivity Chrome extension published by mobile-analytics company Sensor Tower that, as of May 15, 2026, advertises both a "Gen AI Analytics" feature tracking users' "usage of AI…
For the satellite internet service provider, see Starlink. Starlink is a connectivity service equipped on most modern Subaru vehicles, enabling extensive data collection from the vehicle and its…
Founded in 1965, Subway IP LLC is an American food restaurant specializing in submarine sandwiches with 20,127 locations in the United States.