BetterHelp is an online mental health platform that connects consumers with licensed therapists. The company operates under different names for certain specialized services. For example, Faithful Counseling targets Christian consumers, Pride Counseling targets the LGBTQ community, and ReGain targets... +Read more
A company that creates algorithms that landlords can use to screen tenants, called SafeRent, was sued in 2022 for creating products that could discriminate against black and brown renters who use federally-funded housing vouchers... +Read more
Meta was charged by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with with perpetuating housing discrimination on its Facebook platform by sharing personal information of Facebook users with landlords. The landlords could then use that Facebook user... +Read more
Facebook has been criticized for disparities in its treatment of content by created by LGBTQ users. For example, in 2020, Facebook repeatedly rejected a band’... +Read more
Education tech tech provider Edmodo had to pay $6 million in fines in 2023 for collecting information from students without parental consent, using that information for advertising purposes, and... +Read more
Apple ultimately took the right step to safeguard user privacy, security, and free speech by scrapping a controversial plan to scan users’... +Read more
Zoom has been widely criticized for complying with Chinese government censorship. A ... +Read more
Google stood up for the anonymous speech rights of its users when a wealthy pharmaceutical tycoon tried to use a foreign relations law to unmask an anonymous, American Gmail... +Read more
Zoom failed to provide its users control over their personal information when it quietly updated its terms of service, requiring users to sacrifice their privacy in order to fuel Zoom’s artificial... +Read more
Google announced that it would change the way it stored users’ location history generated by Google Maps, placing the information on the device rather than central servers and shortening the... +Read more
Within a week, the FTC separately accused data brokers X-Mode and InMarket of violating the... +Read more