Smart TV manufacturer Vizio found itself in hot water for privacy and security issues after it was revealed their Smart TVs were collecting and sharing user data with third parties on a massive scale. Compounding this was... +Read more
Following the tragic San Bernardino terrorist shooting, the United States government demanded Apple build a backdoor to assist in accessing encrypted information stored on an iPhone used by one of the attackers. In an open letter to... +Read more
Hardware company ASUS faced a lawsuit by the FTC after it failed to properly secure routers sold to consumers. After initially denying reports that hackers could “traverse any external storage plugged in through the USB... +Read more
Microsoft shined in the press for standing up for users and suing the Department of Justice to stop secrecy about data demands. The lawsuit followed an 18 month period in which the government forced the company to... +Read more
In 2008, YouTube's practice of collecting "deeply private information " about its users, including identifying information and records of every video they had watched, led to criticism when the data was put at risk in a copyright lawsuit. Viacom... +Read more
Yahoo endangered its business prospects after it sat on news of a massive information breach impacting at least 500 million users. The “catastrophic hacking” exposed a... +Read more
Yahoo faced backlash after it was revealed it had complied with a government demand that required it to scan all of its customers’ incoming emails. To comply with the secret court order,... +Read more
Customers and privacy advocates applauded Open Whisper Systems (OWS) after an unsealed court document revealed how the company’s product design had prevented user data from being turned over to the government. By default,... +Read more
Note-taking service Evernote faced swift backlash from users and the press when it announced that employees would review users’ notes as part of the company’s machine learning efforts designed to improve the company’s product... +Read more
iRobot faced widespread media backlash and consumer outcry when it came to light that the company was considering selling maps of customers’ homes for additional revenue. Though iRobot’s... +Read more
Facebook was lauded after going to court in 2017 to fight a federal gag order that prevented the company from alerting users about search warrants for their account information. Facebook’s fight involved three... +Read more
A coalition of 40 tech and racial justice civil rights groups slammed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in an open letter for “silencing individuals at the request of the police” after two separate incidents in which the social media company... +Read more