Privacy

Since July 7, 2026, every new car registered in the European Union must carry an Advanced Driver Distraction Warning (ADDW) system that monitors the driver's gaze, a requirement manufacturers meet in…

Amazon charges non-Prime customers $19.99 per month for Alexa+, a generative AI upgrade to the Alexa voice assistant, while bundling it free with Prime memberships that cost $14.99 per month. The…

To keep using Claude, some consumer subscribers now have to photograph a physical government-issued ID and submit a live selfie to a third-party vendor, Anthropic's identity partner Persona…

Arity, established in 2016 as a subsidiary of Allstate Corporation, positions itself as a leader in mobility data analytics. According to their mission statement: ...collect{s} and analyze{s}…

BlackVue firmware security vulnerabilities are a set of 7 CVEs across 2 BlackVue dashcam models that allow attackers to upload backdoored firmware, access live video feeds & stored recordings without…

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…

BlackVue mandatory app registration removed the ability for dashcam owners to connect to their locally present camera over Wi-Fi without first creating an account and logging in over the internet…

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…

Connected vehicle telematics and domestic abuse is the use of a car's manufacturer-run tracking and remote-control apps as a tool for stalking and control: whoever holds the connected-vehicle-service…

FCC Know Your Customer rulemaking refers to a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on April 30, 2026, that seeks comment on requiring…

In May 2025, leaked internal communications revealed that Flock Safety, a $7.5 billion surveillance technology company, planned to incorporate data from known data breaches into its Nova law…

Gaia GPS, a backcountry navigation app owned by Outside Inc., pushed an update in August 2024 that automatically created public social media profiles on OutsideOnline.com for every user who logged…

Honda owners who purchased vehicles with built-in navigation systems can't download offline map updates without first connecting the car to the internet, activating Online Services to transmit the…

In Jones v. Ford Motor Co., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on October 27, 2023 affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action alleging that Ford infotainment systems automatically…

Kansas City Area Transportation Authority bus facial recognition program is a planned deployment of live facial recognition that would scan boarding passengers' faces on Kansas City public buses and…

Leonardo ELSAG SignalTrace is a sensor system that attaches to automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras and captures the wireless identifiers broadcast by phones, earbuds, smartwatches & other…

BrowserGate is the name given to the April 2026 disclosure that LinkedIn's website runs hidden JavaScript probing a visitor's Chromium-based browser for thousands of installed extensions while…

National Grid USA is installing smart meters across Massachusetts and New York that contain embedded software capable of identifying individual household appliances by their electrical signatures…

The Play Integrity API is a Google service that lets an Android app check whether it is running on what Google calls a "genuine and certified Android device" before the app agrees to work. Apps that…

The proposed Ring–Flock Safety partnership was an announced integration between Amazon-owned Ring and surveillance technology company Flock Safety, which would have enabled law enforcement agencies…

Samsung TVs have been the subject of multiple lawsuits, regulatory complaints, & consumer backlash over data collection practices, benchmark manipulation, & post-purchase advertising. In December…

Schibsted "Pay or Okay" cookie consent fee is a system under which the Nordic media company Schibsted requires readers of its news sites to either consent to behavioral advertising profiling or pay a…

An unpatched flaw in SharkNinja's internet-connected Shark robot vacuums lets a stranger who never sets foot in the house take control of them across an entire Amazon cloud region. On camera-equipped…

SimilarWeb (legally Similarweb Ltd.) is an Israeli digital-market-intelligence company that owns two Chrome Web Store extensions independently documented exfiltrating their users' browsing data…

In September 2024, a player who purchased Far Cry Primal on Steam discovered that the game would not launch without logging into a Ubisoft account, despite the game having no online features. The…

Electric utilities across the United States can remotely raise the temperature on a customer-owned smart thermostat that is enrolled in a demand-response program, in exchange for a bill credit. The…

Verizon App Manager is a system application preinstalled on many Samsung and other Android phones sold by Verizon that installs third-party apps in the background without per-app user consent. The…

In February 2026, Verizon sent longtime customer Tom Collery a replacement Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7 that was an unwiped store demonstration unit still enrolled in Verizon's mobile device management…

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…

The Verizon supercookie was an undeletable tracking identifier that Verizon Wireless inserted into its customers' unencrypted web traffic at the network level, where no browser setting could remove…

Vizio is a television manufacturer whose advertising & data collection business generates more gross profit than the hardware it sells. In Vizio's final quarter as an independent public company (Q3…

Vizio Walmart account requirement for smart TV features is Walmart's policy of requiring owners of select new Vizio OS smart TVs to create a Walmart account before they can use smart TV features…

Yahoo! mandatory use of AI on all consumer services and content refers to Yahoo!'s 2025 Terms of Service update that requires users to consent to sharing their account data, including private email…