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1Password is a multi-platform subscription-based password manager developed by AgileBits Inc. It is often used due to the combination of a master password with a second secret key generated on-device…

3D Printing restrictions and bans are legal, technical, and policy limits that governments, platforms, and manufacturers place on how consumer 3D printers may be bought, modified, or used. The most…

Activation is a license or service validation procedure. It may involve sending information about a device, a license or a licensee to a service provider, and receiving some information that is…

Adobe is a software company based in San Jose, California, that specializes in creative software, including photo editing, video editing, animation, illustration, web development, and more. Founded…

Age Verification (AV), also referred to as Age Affirmation (AA) and Age gating, is the process in where a business requires some form of identification to verify your age, a mass surveillance measure…

Alibaba Group is a multinational technology company founded in 1999 that operates a broad ecosystem of e-commerce, cloud computing, digital payments, logistics, and technology services. The company…

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…

Amazon Kindle is a product line of e-readers made by Amazon.

On August 25, 2025, Google announced an upcoming application installation restriction on Google-certified Android devices, requiring all developers to register and verify their real-life identity…

Anker has recalled over 1.68 million portable power banks across four U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls between 2023 and 2025 for fire and explosion hazards, after 90 documented…

Anthropic PBC is a private for-profit American artificial intelligence (AI) startup founded in 2021. Anthropic is mainly known for their family of large language models (LLMs) known as Claude.

Apple is an American technology company that was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Apple's current…

iOS, the operating system of the Apple iPhone, has introduced on its Beta version 26.4 an integrated Age Verification in the operating system. This feature will be launched on the United Kingdom…

Applebee's Restaurants LLC is an American company that's operates and owns restaurant chain Applebee's Neighborhood Grill + Bar. It became an subsidiary to Dine Brands after a $2.1 billion…

Founded in 1964 by Forest Raffel and Leroy Raffel (or known as the Raffel Brothers), Arby's IP Holder, LLC is a American fast food chain specializing in sandwiches and milkshakes. It is a subsidiary…

This page is dedicated towards providing a communal list for users to submit potential articles to feature on the wiki, and to give editors inspiration on what pages they might want to add to the…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science that produces systems designed to solve problems that humans typically solve using intelligence. In the consumer and industry space, it is…

Audible, an audiobook marketplace and subsidiary of Amazon, is changing its royalty structure to subsidize its streaming service with premium credit purchases. In August 2025, the new structure took…

Avid Technology Inc. is a US-based multimedia and technology company located in Massachusetts formed in August of 1987 that specializes in providing solutions for the professional audio, video, and…

Bambu Lab is a Chinese technology company that designs and manufactures 3D printers. The company is based in Shenzhen, China, with locations in Shanghai and Austin, Texas. It was founded in 2020 by a…

The Bambu Lab A1 NTC thermistor fire and meltdown hazard is an ongoing product-safety defect in which the negative-temperature-coefficient thermistor on the AC distribution board of older Bambu Lab…

On January 16, 2025, the 3D-printer manufacturer Bambu Lab announced that future firmwares for its 3D printers would introduce an authorization and authentication mechanism for printer connection and…

In April 2026, Bambu Lab sent a private cease-and-desist demand to Paweł Jarczak, the Polish maintainer of an AGPL-licensed OrcaSlicer community fork that had restored direct printer control…

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.

Bitwarden is an American software company, incorporated in Delaware and with headquarters in Santa Barbara, California. Its main product is the eponymous password manager.

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…

Bluebeam Revu 20 license reassignment cutoff refers to Bluebeam's decision to end technical support and legacy-license seat reassignment for Revu 20 on 31 July 2026. Bluebeam states that…

BMW charges a subscription or one-time fee to activate the High Beam Assistant (HBA) on vehicles that already contain the required hardware at the time of purchase. The feature automatically dips…

Booking.com processes over 1.1 billion room nights per year across 3.4 million properties, but its booking flow doesn't require hosts to show all terms before the consumer pays. Consumers have…

Robert Bosch GmbH, commonly known as Bosch (styled BOSCH), is a German multinational engineering and technology company founded in 1886 by Robert Bosch.

Home Connect is Bosch's cloud based smart home control system used in select The Bosch 500 series is a range of dishwashers sold as premium smart appliances, focusing on their convenience and ease…

Brainly (originally Zadane.pl) is a Polish company and platform founded in 2009 by Michał Borkowski dedicated towards students assisting each other for homework online. In recent years, the platform…

Brother Industries Ltd. manufactures and sells communications and printing equipment in Japan, the Americas, Europe, Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, Africa, and internationally. It operates through…

Browser extension AI chat exfiltration is the practice of browser extensions, primarily distributed through the Chrome Web Store, reading the content of users' conversations with AI chatbots such as…

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…

Bumpgate (also known as Nvidiagate) was a scandal where Nvidia and ATI Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) made from 2005-2010 were prone to high failure rates because of a design flaw that caused…

Founded in 1990 by Alex Seropian, Bungie is a game development studio that has been known to develop games for their popular franchises, such as Marathon, Destiny, and initially Halo. Originally, the…

Internet access is a monthly subscription to access a physical infrastructure. Modern internet connections use cable such a COAX or fiber optics to deliver TV and internet to homes across Canada…

On May 24, 2019, Canva identified their systems were attacked and posted an announcement about the breach, urging users to change their passwords. 139 million users were affected, and information…

ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a generative artificial intelligence application developed and marketed by OpenAI. It was released on November 30th, 2022. It is a large language…

Founded in 1946, Chick-fil-A, Inc. is an American fast food chain that specializes chicken related products like chicken sandwiches or chicken tenders. The company sponsors organizations like the…

Chromium is a free and open-source web browser developed by and primarily maintained by Google. Several major web browsers use Chromium as the base of their software, including Google Chrome…

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…

Claude is a generative artificial intelligence, a large language model (LLM) developed and released by Anthropic. It was created with the objective of being a safe AI for the public. Claude family…

Click Adventure was a fake Steam game used to drain wallet funds from pre-compromised user accounts through the Steam Community Marketplace. Published by "Folso Dev" on August 6, 2025, the game…

Congstar GmbH is a German mobile network operator.

Consent-or-pay, also known as pay-or-okay, is a business model implemented in response to the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Under this model, users of a website are…

CosmosDirekt is an insurance group based in Saarbrücken, Germany.

Cracker Barrel is an American chain of restaurant and gift stores that delve into an Southern country theme, with its menu comprising of Southern cuisine related items.

Creality is a Chinese technology company headquartered in Shenzhen which manufactures 3D printers and 3D scanners

Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests & forcing them to upgrade to regain functionality.

International Dairy Queen, Inc., also referred as Dairy Queen, was founded in 6 June 1940 and is a American fast food restaurant chain. It is a subsidiary to Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

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…

Dead Space 2 activation limit lockout is an ongoing consumer rights incident in which paying owners of the 2011 single-player survival horror game Dead Space 2 are locked out of the product by its…

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…

Denny's is an American table service restaurant chain spanning across 1500 locations worldwide. It is the owner of The Burger Den and The Meltdown. On January, Denny's became a private subsidiary to…

Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH is an Austrian company that develops the digital-rights management (DRM) and anti-tamper software Denuvo Anti-Tamper (DAT) and the anti-cheat system Denuvo Anti-Cheat…

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…

Digital Europe (stylized as DIGITALEUROPE) is a Brussels-based technology industry lobby group whose members include Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta. Reporting by Investigate Europe and other…

Ikawa Coffee Home Roasters, including models like the Home Roaster 100, require the use of their mobile app to set roast profiles, fine tune setting, share recipes, and operate the device via…

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…

DJI is a Chinese drone and camera manufacturer that requires mandatory app activation on its consumer products, locks cameras and gimbals into non-functional states after 5 activation skips, and…

Dynamic pricing is an umbrella term, which refers to a pricing strategy of modifying the price of a product or service according to market demands and/or consumer-identifying information. This…

Dyson Limited is a manufacturer of home appliances, most notably vacuum cleaners. The company has been involved in several incidents related to the aftermarket repair of its products.

EE is a telecommunications provider in the UK offering mobile phone and broadband services. It was founded as a merger between Orange and T-Mobile, and is part of BT Consumer.

Electronics leasing is an emerging business model in which consumer electronics such as phones or games consoles are leased to consumers for extended periods, rather than sold either by direct…

On June 29, 2026, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) told a California Senate committee that community-hosted video game servers are illegal & that the trade group considers them piracy, in…

Epic Games is a software development and media-publishing company founded in 1991 by Tim Sweeney. They are best known for the development of the Unreal Engine and the popular video game Fortnite…

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. Article 169 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union enables the EU…

In February 2025 Mozilla introduced terms of service (TOS) for the Firefox browser for the first time as well as an updated privacy policy. These terms of service contain a section about the rights…

The Google Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 are Smart Watches / Fitness Trackers designed, developed and marketed by Fitbit, now owned by Google. Both devices have reached their end of support. Google…

Flashforge Flash Studio mandatory slicer advertising and third-party slicer lockout refers to a sequence of Flashforge software and firmware changes between March 2025 and May 2026 that forced owners…

Flock License Plate Readers (previously known as Flock Safety Falcon, or colloquially known as Flock Cameras), are a network of AI-powered surveillance cameras that record vehicle data for law…

Flock Safety is a technology company that creates and operates an extensive surveillance network using automated license plate readers (ALPRs) and related technologies. Flock was founded in 2017 by…

Forced arbitration is a practice in which businesses can require their customers to resolve disputes through arbitration instead of a traditional court system.

Basic Input/Output System, also known as BIOS, is a type of firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization during the booting…