Software company Avast has been forced to pay $16.5 million and stop selling or licensing web browsing data for advertising purposes to settle FTC... +Read more
Following reports that Airbnb hosts were secretly surveilling guests using hidden cameras placed in highly invasive locations such as bedrooms and... +Read more
The FTC sued Flo Health—a once-popular women’s health app used for tracking reproductive health information such as menstrual cycles and pregnancies—for lying to users about its privacy policies and claiming to keep health information private while... +Read more
Zoom has been widely criticized for complying with Chinese government censorship. A ... +Read more
Facing multi-year, high profile campaigns about the dangers of facial recognition from the ACLU and... +Read more
OpenAI got hit with an expensive class action lawsuit in 2023 for violating privacy rights by scraping the internet for massive amounts of personal information without notice and without permission in... +Read more
Apple ultimately took the right step to safeguard user privacy, security, and free speech by scrapping 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
The internet erupted with criticism about Facebook’s “ complicated ” and even “... +Read more
Amazon had to pay $25 million dollars for improperly collecting children’s voice recordings and geolocation information through its Alexa devices, misleading parents about privacy protections, and failing to honor... +Read more
Microsoft was slapped with $ 20 million in fines in 2023 to settle FTC charges that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The FTC... +Read more