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Clearview AI, Inc. is an American facial recognition company, providing software to law enforcement, government agencies, and (previously) private companies.

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…

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…

Clip Studio Paint switched from a perpetual license to a subscription model. They had given users with a perpetual license free feature updates, but stopped after changes to the business model.

In August 2025, YouTuber Louis Rossmann started a grassroots solidarity visibility campaign (tentatively named the Clippy Campaign), wherein participants changed their profile pictures on social…

In consumer technology, a cloud service typically refers to a data processing service provided by a service provider (often product manufacturer), often for a periodic fee, without control over or…

Cloudflare, Inc. is an American company that offers a wide range of web services.

Clover Network Inc. offers credit card processing hardware and point-of-sale (POS) systems.

COBB Tuning is an automotive engineering company based out of Austin, Texas that designs and engineers various aftermarket performance parts for motor vehicles.They were originally founded in 1999…

Coffee Meets Bagel is a dating and social-networking service based in the United States, founded in 2012 by three sisters.

Colgate is a dental health company founded in 1806 and primarily sells traditional toothbrushes, toothpaste, mouthwash, and whitening strips. With the Hum line of toothbrushes, they are sold at a…

Collective Shout is an Australian activist group founded in 2009 by its current director, Melinda Tankard Reist. It identifies itself as: "A grassroots movement challenging the objectification of…

Colorado SB26-090 is a 2026 bill that would exempt "information technology equipment intended for use in critical infrastructure" from Colorado's Consumer Right to Repair Digital Electronic Equipment…

Comcast is a US-based telecommunications company operating under the Xfinity brand for residential Internet, TV, and phone services.

The Dutch national weather forecasting service (KNMI) faced a lawsuit over their weather app that was revised. The plaintiffs were the major commercial weather app providers in the Netherlands (NVWB).

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulates U.S. financial derivatives markets. The CFTC has various resources for members of the public to file a complaint.

This page collects common objections raised against automated license plate reader (ALPR) and AI surveillance camera deployments, and the documented legal and factual responses to them.

In 2024 the Commonwealth Bank made a policy change to collect and use biometric data from users PCs and Smartphones.

CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association, is an American non-profit trade association that issues professional certifications for the information technology (IT) industry. It is…

Company ConnectedLife (formerly Connected Life Labs) is an AI health companion app platform. In June 2019, they released a product to measure and transmit information from within your clothes dryer…

Consent-or-pay, also known as consent-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…

Consumer Advice is a specialist service available in the UK, provided by the charity Citizens Advice. It aims to provide free, impartial, and confidential advice on consumer problems.

The Consumer Defense Code (CDC) of Brazil, english for "Código de Defesa do Consumidor", enacted by former president Fernando Collor, on September 11, 1990 as Federal Law No. 8.078, establishes…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an independent agency of the United States government that "implements and enforces federal consumer financial law".The CFPB draws on various…

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The Consumer Rights Act 2015 (CRA 2015) is a UK Act of Parliament that consolidates and modernises consumer protection law in the United Kingdom. It came into force on 1 October 2015, replacing…

The Consumer Technology Association (or CTA) is both a standards and trade organization. Their mission statement is "to help innovators of all sizes grow their business." They are active lobbyists…

Corporate greed, or simply greed, is a modern phenomenon In which corporations pursue goals for profit and shareholder-value without valuing customer thoughts and consumer rights.

Costco Wholesale Corporation is an American retail store with a membership-only policy. Costco is also known for its “warehouse” aesthetic and selling products in bulk.

Costco has a pharmacy website that members can use to mail order pharmaceuticals for people and their pets. Costco uses a back-end tracking code which allows for a broad scope of information to be…

Meta and Yandex use a covert tracking method on Android: their native apps (Facebook, Instagram, Yandex apps) listen on fixed localhost ports, and scripts on websites forward browser cookies and…

Cox Communications, Inc. is an Atlanta-based American telecommunications company which provides internet, TV, home automation, and phone services.

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled is a 2019 kart racing video game developed by Beenox and published by Activision, released worldwide for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. It is a…

Crave, the Canadian streaming service owned by Bell Media, stopped supporting its app on Samsung smart TVs manufactured before 2018 as of September 15, 2025. Crave's device compatibility page now…

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

Creality has removed access to previously available features such as scanning directly with a phone link (connecting the phone directly to the 3d scanner), without the use of proprietary hardware…

Creative Fabrica is an online marketplace for fonts, graphics, and design assets, including a premium All Access Subscription marketed with commercial-use licensing. The service is widely used by…

Cricut, Inc. is an American brand of cutting plotters, or motorised cutting machines, designed for home crafters.

Crunchyroll is a US-based streaming platform dedicated to anime, owned by Sony. It was Launched on May 14, 2006.

Cryptic Studios is an American video game developer specializing in massively multiplayer online role-playing games, now owned by Embracer Group.

CSS-based tracking and CSS fingerprinting consist of abusing the semantics of CSS, a styling language used to present virtually all web-pages, in order to trick web-browsers to send data to servers.

Cuisinart is a kitchen appliance manufacturer. They began by introducing a food processor in 1973 and has since offered Coffee Makers, Percolators, Kettles, Cutlery, Toasters, Air Fryers and many…

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.

Cybergun is a French company specializing in licensed airsoft and replica firearms. The business originated in 1983 when Jérôme Marsac and Vincent Bouvet began working together in the French…

CYMA Airsoft was established around 2000 and manufactures a wide range of airsoft replica weapons and accessories, including electric airsoft rifles (AEG), gas-powered models, spring-powered guns…

Daily Wire+ advertises “lifetime Membership” access, but the term may not match typical expectations of lifetime service.

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.

A dark pattern is a manipulative design practice that tricks or influences users into making decisions that may not align with their true preferences or interests. These techniques exploit cognitive…