MeetMe was met with a barrage of bad press and sued by the City of San Francisco over its collection of location information from teenaged users. The City alleged that MeetMe used a “tangled web of ambiguous and misleading statements” to hide that it was... +Read more
Yelp was investigated by the FTC , fined, and ordered to destroy its records after improperly collecting information from young users... +Read more
Tesla was able to quickly address a vulnerability in the software for one of its cars by cooperating with researchers who discovered the flaw . Even before the bug was known,... +Read more
Electronic lock maker CyberLock drew harsh criticism for its “ abuse of the legal system ” when it sent threatening legal letters to a researcher to prevent him from publicly revealing his research about its products. The... +Read more
Spotify was widely criticized for the difficult-to-decipher language in an update to its privacy policy released in mid-2015. Many users were confused by the policy and believed that Spotify wanted to track users “like a jealous ex.” Spotify’s CEO issued a... +Read more
Lookout, a mobile privacy and security startup, attracted lots of positive attention for building a tool to help mobile apps produce short-form privacy policies. The company decided to... +Read more
Lenovo was lambasted in the press after security researchers revealed that the PC-maker was selling computers secretly preinstalled with “ nefarious ” adware that not only collected information about users’ online... +Read more
Snapchat was punished by the FTC for misrepresenting its security and privacy practices , including its fundamental promise that photos and videos “... +Read more
RadioShack was widely condemned when it announced plans to sell tens of millions of customers’ data in bankruptcy proceedings even though it had promised not to sell or share any of that information in its privacy... +Read more
Goldenshores Technologies, makers of the “Brightest Flashlight Free” Android app, faced legal action from the FTC for... +Read more
The racy online service Ashley Madison received strong public criticism and was dragged into court after a breach revealed the service retained information about users who had paid the company an additional fee to delete their accounts. Even though Ashley... +Read more
Prominent security firm RSA faced a massive backlash after reports that it has been paid by the NSA to adopt compromised encryption tools . The story stoked rumors that the spy agency had “backdoor” access to the encrypted communications of the company’s... +Read more