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Cambridge Analytica Scandal

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…

Cameras bricked on iPhone 13 series after iOS update

Following the iOS 18 release on 16 September 2024, users of the iPhone 13-series of smart phones noticed the rear-facing-cameras of their devices were no longer functional. One user filed a Better…

Cami Research

CAMI Research Inc. is an American company that develops testing devices for cables and harnesses.

Canadian Bill S-209

Canadian Bill S-209 is a bill introduced by Hon. Sen.

Canadian bread price fixing

From 2001 to 2015 or 2017, Canadian retailers, including Walmart Canada, Metro, Giant Tiger and Sobeys, colluded to fix prices of bread.

Canadian internet providers circumvent CRTC protection

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.

Canary

Canary is a consumer security camera line (including Pro, View, and Flex cameras) produced by Canary, a dedicated home security technology company founded in 2012. Based in New York, the company…

Canon

Canon Inc. embeds DRM chips in ink cartridges to block third-party & refilled cartridges, disables scanning on all-in-one printers when ink runs low, & charges $4.99/month for 1080p webcam output…

Canon Camera Connect

Canon Camera Connect is a mobile app for iOS and Android that connects to Bluetooth- and Wi-Fi-equipped Canon cameras to enable remote shooting, geotagging, and media transfer to smartphones. Since…

Canon EOS Webcam Utility patch guide

This article gives instructions for removal of the subscription requirement from the Canon EOS Webcam Utility.

Canon ink DRM

During the global semiconductor shortage, Canon shipped toner cartridges for its business multifunction printers without DRM authentication chips and published support pages instructing customers to…

Canon legacy scanner driver abandonment

Canon legacy scanner driver abandonment is Canon's practice of classifying functional scanners & multifunction printers as "retired" and stopping all driver development, which prevents the hardware…

Canon printers disable scanning when ink is low

Canon printers disable scanning when ink is low documents Canon's practice of forcing all-in-one PIXMA printers into a hard error state when ink cartridges are low or empty, blocking the scanner &…

Canonical

Canonical is a software company best known for creating Ubuntu, an operating system based on Linux. It is largely funded by South African billionaire Mark Shuttleworth.

Canva

Canva is an Australian software company that offers freemium graphic design and creative software. Canva has been accumulating acquisitions such as Serif, MangoAI, and Cavalry.

Canva 2019 data breach

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…

Canva Affinity Studio adds arbitration clause

Canva, the company that acquired Serif (parent company of Affinity and its respective graphic editing software) has removed the ability for users to purchase older versions of the Affinity…

Capital One

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…

Capital One Shopping

Capital One Shopping is a free browser extension from Capital One that allows users to find discounts from various online retailers.

CAPTCHA

Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart or CAPTCHA was invented in 2000 as a means to deter bots and spam on publicly available websites. CAPTCHA tests aim to…

CARIAD

CARIAD is a company that develops software solutions for the automotive industry. This company is part of the Volkswagen Group.

Carly

Carly is a manufacturer of ODB2 tools and software for automotive diagnostics.

Casey Stefanski

Casey Stefanski is an American child safety advocate and the Executive Director of the Digital Childhood Alliance, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization founded in 2025. She is a mother of three and a…

Cava Grill

Founded in 2006, Cava Group, Inc., also referred as Cava Grill, is a American Mediterranean fast casual restaurant.

Cerberus

Cerberus Phone Antitheft is an app designed to be a suite of services centered on security, developed by LSDroid.

Cerberus Phone Security Login with ad blocker no longer possible

Cerberus Phone Security is a service that can track stolen phones and has several anti-theft and security features. They have several subscription tiers ranging from 5$-43$ per year depending on how…

CF Moto puts previously included features behind paywall

CFMOTO changed the terms of service for the CFMOTO Ride mobile application by introducing a paid subscription model for its intelligent services. These changes, implemented on August 15, 2025…

CgNAT

Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT, also known as LSN and NAT444) is used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion by making thousands of customers share…

Chamberlain Group

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.

Chamberlain removes API access from new and existing garage door openers

"If companies can modify internet-connected products and charge subscriptions after people have already purchased them, what does it mean to own anything anymore?" - Brian X. Chen, The New York Times

Change.org

Change.org is a website which allows users to create and sign petitions in an attempt to advance various social causes by raising awareness and influencing decision-makers.

Charles Schwab

The Charles Schwab Corporation is a US-based company providing brokerage and financial services.

Chase Bank

Chase Bank is one of the leading financial services providers in the United States.

Chat Control

The Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse (Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, or CSAR), or most commonly known as Chat Control, is a proposed European Union regulation that aims to combat…

ChatGPT

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…

ChatGPT-4o

ChatGPT-4o was a language model that belonged to the ChatGPT family, that became controversial due to safety problems, AI psychosis and attempts to remove it from OpenAI's platform.

Chevron

Founded by Charles N. Felton and Lloyd Tevis, Chevron Corporation is an American energy corporation headquartered in Sam Ramon, California, being active across 180 countries and ranked second…

Chick-fil-A

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

Chipotle

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., also known as Chipotle is an American chain of fast casual restaurants primarily serving burritos and bowls across over 4000 locations globally. It was founded on 13…

Chrome OS ends support for school Chromebooks
Chromium

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…

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Cinemark

Cinemark Theatres is a major American and international movie theater chain founded in 1977. As of March 2025, there are 497 Cinemark theaters in the United States and Latin America combined.

Circular economy

Circular Economy ideas and concepts have been studied extensively in academia, business, and government over the past ten years. It has been gaining popularity because it can help to minimize carbon…

Cisco Removing access to critical downloads for products that are end-of-support
Cisco Requiring a service contract to download in-support device firmware

Some Cisco products such as the Cisco ISR 1000 series require an active service contract from Cisco to download any files such as firmware, software, patches, etc. This makes updating devices to…

Cisco Smart Licensing

Cisco Smart Licensing is a default licensing model offered by Cisco Systems Inc. for a wide variety of Cisco networking products.

Cisco Systems, Inc.

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and…

Class action

A class action (or class-action lawsuit) is a type of civil lawsuit that allows a group of individuals (the "class") to make a collective civil case against an entity. European countries use the…

Claude

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.