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Even the responsible AI company cuts corners.Claude A Chinese AI stored your conversations in a database anyone could read.DeepSeek Three seconds of audio. That's all it takes to clone your voice.ElevenLabs Your old "yes" to autocomplete became a "yes" to AI reading every email.Google Gemini Now he cannot say anything.ChatGPT The uncensored AI generated child sexual abuse material at industrial scale.Grok A child fell in love with software, and nobody was watching.Character.AI An AI company let people fall in love, then lobotomised the product overnight.Replika The company that makes your browser was running a loan shark operation.Opera Browser Every Tapo camera in the world shared the same key. The researcher called it TAPOcalypse.Tapo C520WS The FTC's first IoT action was against a camera with "Secure" literally in its name.TRENDnet SecurView IP Cameras 150,000 security cameras hacked. Tesla factories. Psychiatric patients. Prison cells.Verkada Security Cameras It wasn't designed for the people it was pointed at.Verkada Security Cameras You gave your ID to TikTok. A company you never heard of left it on the internet.Au10tix Identity Verification Experian sells identity theft protection. Experian is the identity theft vulnerability.Experian Credit Report 1.6 billion people's location histories. Who bought them? Nobody is sure.Near Location Data Platform The data broker equivalent of a fake moustache.X-Mode Location Data The app said "prayer times." The data said "surveillance target."SafeGraph Location Data Planned Parenthood visitor data, sold to anyone willing to pay.SafeGraph Location Data The tool marketed as saving lives is outing children to hostile families.Gaggle Safety Management The classroom became a data collection pipeline.Google Classroom An algorithm enforces exam integrity by punishing disability, poverty, and skin colour.Proctorio Exam Surveillance An algorithm that can't tell a second language from a chatbot is deciding who graduates.Turnitin $85 million in deposits vanished. The middleman who kept the records no longer exists.Synapse Banking-as-a-Service Biometric colonialism with a cryptocurrency wrapper.Worldcoin / World ID He created the disease and sells the cure.Worldcoin / World ID When every regulator reaches the same conclusion, the product is the problem.Worldcoin / World ID 146 child exploitation lawsuits. Two countries banned it.Roblox "You're in control" meant "you had three months to notice."My Health Record Two billion dollars for a system the doctors say doesn't work.My Health Record $9.1 million for an app that found 2 contacts.COVIDSafe App "Trust us, we deleted it" is not deletion.COVIDSafe App Millions of iPhone users walked around thinking they were protected. They were carrying a placebo.COVIDSafe App The biometric step confirms you're holding a phone. Not that you're the person on the document.myID / Digital Identity Unlike a password, you cannot change your face. The government proceeded anyway.myID / Digital Identity The ATO made it easier for fraudsters to get in than for real taxpayers to get paid.ATO App / myTax The people who served their country cannot get their country to secure their data.VA Health / My HealtheVet People fleeing floods had to choose between asking for help and being deported.FEMA App The federal government defrauded itself.Login.gov HMRC built one of the largest biometric databases in the UK and called it customer service.HMRC App 100 million faces in a searchable database. The man running it lied to Congress.ID.me Identity Verification An algorithm decided who eats and who doesn't. It had a racial bias baked in.ID.me Identity Verification Your GP notes, in the hands of a US intelligence contractor.NHS App Every promise on that QR code screen was a lie.Service NSW App $557 million stolen through fake myGov accounts in a single year.myGov App The government repaid $1.76 billion. The dead did not come back.myGov App Your Medicare number — for $30 on the dark web.Express Plus Medicare 443,000 people got debts they never owed. At least three killed themselves.Express Plus Centrelink Welfare recipients live under more financial surveillance than money launderers.Express Plus Centrelink The Ombudsman called it failing the most vulnerable Australians.Express Plus Centrelink Your face, sold on the dark web. That is the trusted traveler program.TSA PreCheck & Global Entry The world's largest biometric database, protected by denial.Aadhaar / mAadhaar Digital inclusion, with a body count.Aadhaar / mAadhaar Digital inclusion means nothing when the government makes exclusion the default.Service Victoria App Your DNA is for sale in a bankruptcy auction.23andMe DNA Kit Your trainer's app won't even promise to keep your data private.Trainerize Platform A private equity firm bought your hiking routes for $150 million.AllTrails 11,000 crimes traced to one breach. Health secrets became criminal tools.Medibank The app women downloaded to protect themselves was doing exactly what they feared.Stardust Period Tracker The data you are trying to protect is betrayed by the pattern of protecting it.Stardust Period Tracker A sportswear company couldn't protect 150 million accounts.MapMyRun / MapMyFitness Executives sold stock before telling 150 million users their data was stolen.MapMyRun / MapMyFitness A diet company collected body image data from 8-year-olds. The government made them burn it.WeightWatchers / Sequence The algorithm converts poverty into higher premiums.Root Insurance App LinkedIn trained AI on your posts. They turned it on by default. They didn't tell you.LinkedIn Jobs The apology app has the same disease as the original.YouTube Kids A child watched Peppa Pig drink bleach. The algorithm recommended it.YouTube Kids The FTC fined them $650,000 — about ten cents per child.VTech KidiConnect / Learning Lodge The encryption was opt-in. The Chinese access was not.LINE Messenger Viber uploaded your friends' phone numbers without their knowledge.Viber A cloud chat app with a privacy reputation it hasn't earned.Telegram (Privacy Claims)The encrypted mode doesn't work in groups, doesn't sync, and requires manual activation. Almost nobody uses it.Telegram (Privacy Claims)A keylogger built into Windows. Microsoft delayed it. They didn't cancel it.Windows 11 A quarter of a billion dollars drained from a password manager.LastPass Password Manager Your family album is Google's AI training data.Google Photos Your printer worked yesterday. Today it refuses because the ink isn't branded.Epson EcoTank ET-2850 Passwords, API keys, database credentials — one Google search away on public Trello boards.Trello One admin click. Every document in the company fed to third-party AI.Notion AI 4 billion phone numbers harvested. Your privacy, decided by someone else's download.Truecaller Your vacuum cleaner, weaponised.Ecovacs Deebot X2 Two aisles apart. Two different privacy regimes.Costco App Your face, in a database, for twelve-dollar towels.Kmart Australia You downloaded a bargain store. Arkansas says you downloaded spyware.Temu Hackers came in through the air conditioning.Target App / Circle The largest private surveillance network in America, on your front porch.Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro Ring employees used the camera to watch you undress.Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro Your smart plug is now an unpatched entry point to your home network. Permanently.Wemo Smart Home The fish tank of 2025 is a grow light.Mars Hydro IoT Grow Lights The company that sold it has gone silent.Nexx Smart Garage Controller This is not a vulnerability. This is an absence of security.Nexx Smart Garage Controller You bought a pet. It reports to Beijing.Unitree Go2 Robot Dog Your hotel room lock has been bypassable for 36 years.Saflok Hotel Locks Less secure than a $5 combination padlock from 1970.Master Lock Smart Padlock Your family movie night, screenshotted 120 times per minute, by a Chinese company.Hisense Smart TV Instagram had encrypted DMs. Meta removed them 11 days before a new law.Instagram Your cancer diagnosis, sent to an advertising company via a tracking pixel.Facebook SDK / Meta Pixel The data that destroyed his career started as "anonymous app analytics."Facebook SDK / Meta Pixel The privacy settings were a placebo. The SDK ignored them.Facebook SDK / Meta Pixel The only social network that requires your actual home address.Nextdoor Tubi's Super Bowl ad was designed to make you think someone hijacked your TV.Tubi You can buy a pre-infected streaming box with same-day delivery.Cheap Android TV Boxes (BadBox 2.0)The company the IRS chose to provide free tax filing spent years hiding it.IRS Free File / Direct File GM sold your driving data to insurance companies. Behind your back.GM OnStar / Chevrolet Connected Services The company building luxury cars couldn't secure its own source code.Mercedes-Benz MB.OS / MBUX The connected car was connected to anyone who found the door.Subaru Starlink Connected Services VW stored it all in the cloud and forgot to lock the door.VW ID.4 / Cariad Platform The privacy-first wearable became a Meta product. Everything it recorded now belongs to an ad company.Limitless Pendant Your glasses recorded your most private moments and sent them to Kenya.Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Kajabi tells you they don't sell your data. Their own CCPA disclosure says they do.Kajabi The BBB gave Kajabi an F. They ignored 15 out of 18 complaints.Kajabi You pay $199/month for "your own app." Kajabi built it, hosts it, and keeps the data.Kajabi Eight scraping tools harvest Skool member data. Some don't even need a login.Skool Skool's privacy policy doesn't apply to paid communities. That's their entire business.Skool Mighty Networks says it only collects your IP address. It processes 9 billion data points per month.Mighty Networks Your yoga community data goes to Palo Alto. Adriene's face is on the app. Mighty Networks has the database.KULA by Yoga With Adriene Teachable looks like a New York company. Since 2020, it's owned by a Brazilian company you've never heard of.Teachable Your course progress vanishes 30 days after the creator leaves Teachable. Your certificate goes with it.Teachable Patreon left a debugging tool on its production server. 2.3 million users' private messages were published online.Patreon Stop using Patreon and your data sits there for a decade. Ten years of private messages and home addresses.Patreon Stan Store's privacy policy is a PDF nobody will ever find. The buyer has no idea who really has their data.Stan Store Start typing your card into a Stan Store checkout and change your mind? Stripe already captured what you typed.Stan Store Tony Robbins Arena. 30,000 members. Developer: Mighty Software, Inc. Support email: help@mightynetworks.com.Tony Robbins Arena Jim Kwik teaches you to optimise your brain. His app hasn't been updated since 2023. It's not his app.Kwik Brain Universe Matthew Hussey's members share heartbreak and dating struggles. Mighty Networks stores it all.Matthew Hussey LoveLife Marie Forleo invested in Mighty Networks. Then she sent her students' data to it.Marie Forleo One creator. Two apps. Three companies with your data. That's how the influencer economy works.Find What Feels Good Even the responsible AI company cuts corners.Claude A Chinese AI stored your conversations in a database anyone could read.DeepSeek Three seconds of audio. That's all it takes to clone your voice.ElevenLabs Your old "yes" to autocomplete became a "yes" to AI reading every email.Google Gemini Now he cannot say anything.ChatGPT The uncensored AI generated child sexual abuse material at industrial scale.Grok A child fell in love with software, and nobody was watching.Character.AI An AI company let people fall in love, then lobotomised the product overnight.Replika The company that makes your browser was running a loan shark operation.Opera Browser Every Tapo camera in the world shared the same key. The researcher called it TAPOcalypse.Tapo C520WS The FTC's first IoT action was against a camera with "Secure" literally in its name.TRENDnet SecurView IP Cameras 150,000 security cameras hacked. Tesla factories. Psychiatric patients. Prison cells.Verkada Security Cameras It wasn't designed for the people it was pointed at.Verkada Security Cameras You gave your ID to TikTok. A company you never heard of left it on the internet.Au10tix Identity Verification Experian sells identity theft protection. Experian is the identity theft vulnerability.Experian Credit Report 1.6 billion people's location histories. Who bought them? Nobody is sure.Near Location Data Platform The data broker equivalent of a fake moustache.X-Mode Location Data The app said "prayer times." The data said "surveillance target."SafeGraph Location Data Planned Parenthood visitor data, sold to anyone willing to pay.SafeGraph Location Data The tool marketed as saving lives is outing children to hostile families.Gaggle Safety Management The classroom became a data collection pipeline.Google Classroom An algorithm enforces exam integrity by punishing disability, poverty, and skin colour.Proctorio Exam Surveillance An algorithm that can't tell a second language from a chatbot is deciding who graduates.Turnitin $85 million in deposits vanished. The middleman who kept the records no longer exists.Synapse Banking-as-a-Service Biometric colonialism with a cryptocurrency wrapper.Worldcoin / World ID He created the disease and sells the cure.Worldcoin / World ID When every regulator reaches the same conclusion, the product is the problem.Worldcoin / World ID 146 child exploitation lawsuits. Two countries banned it.Roblox "You're in control" meant "you had three months to notice."My Health Record Two billion dollars for a system the doctors say doesn't work.My Health Record $9.1 million for an app that found 2 contacts.COVIDSafe App "Trust us, we deleted it" is not deletion.COVIDSafe App Millions of iPhone users walked around thinking they were protected. They were carrying a placebo.COVIDSafe App The biometric step confirms you're holding a phone. Not that you're the person on the document.myID / Digital Identity Unlike a password, you cannot change your face. The government proceeded anyway.myID / Digital Identity The ATO made it easier for fraudsters to get in than for real taxpayers to get paid.ATO App / myTax The people who served their country cannot get their country to secure their data.VA Health / My HealtheVet People fleeing floods had to choose between asking for help and being deported.FEMA App The federal government defrauded itself.Login.gov HMRC built one of the largest biometric databases in the UK and called it customer service.HMRC App 100 million faces in a searchable database. The man running it lied to Congress.ID.me Identity Verification An algorithm decided who eats and who doesn't. It had a racial bias baked in.ID.me Identity Verification Your GP notes, in the hands of a US intelligence contractor.NHS App Every promise on that QR code screen was a lie.Service NSW App $557 million stolen through fake myGov accounts in a single year.myGov App The government repaid $1.76 billion. The dead did not come back.myGov App Your Medicare number — for $30 on the dark web.Express Plus Medicare 443,000 people got debts they never owed. At least three killed themselves.Express Plus Centrelink Welfare recipients live under more financial surveillance than money launderers.Express Plus Centrelink The Ombudsman called it failing the most vulnerable Australians.Express Plus Centrelink Your face, sold on the dark web. That is the trusted traveler program.TSA PreCheck & Global Entry The world's largest biometric database, protected by denial.Aadhaar / mAadhaar Digital inclusion, with a body count.Aadhaar / mAadhaar Digital inclusion means nothing when the government makes exclusion the default.Service Victoria App Your DNA is for sale in a bankruptcy auction.23andMe DNA Kit Your trainer's app won't even promise to keep your data private.Trainerize Platform A private equity firm bought your hiking routes for $150 million.AllTrails 11,000 crimes traced to one breach. Health secrets became criminal tools.Medibank The app women downloaded to protect themselves was doing exactly what they feared.Stardust Period Tracker The data you are trying to protect is betrayed by the pattern of protecting it.Stardust Period Tracker A sportswear company couldn't protect 150 million accounts.MapMyRun / MapMyFitness Executives sold stock before telling 150 million users their data was stolen.MapMyRun / MapMyFitness A diet company collected body image data from 8-year-olds. The government made them burn it.WeightWatchers / Sequence The algorithm converts poverty into higher premiums.Root Insurance App LinkedIn trained AI on your posts. They turned it on by default. They didn't tell you.LinkedIn Jobs The apology app has the same disease as the original.YouTube Kids A child watched Peppa Pig drink bleach. The algorithm recommended it.YouTube Kids The FTC fined them $650,000 — about ten cents per child.VTech KidiConnect / Learning Lodge The encryption was opt-in. The Chinese access was not.LINE Messenger Viber uploaded your friends' phone numbers without their knowledge.Viber A cloud chat app with a privacy reputation it hasn't earned.Telegram (Privacy Claims)The encrypted mode doesn't work in groups, doesn't sync, and requires manual activation. Almost nobody uses it.Telegram (Privacy Claims)A keylogger built into Windows. Microsoft delayed it. They didn't cancel it.Windows 11 A quarter of a billion dollars drained from a password manager.LastPass Password Manager Your family album is Google's AI training data.Google Photos Your printer worked yesterday. Today it refuses because the ink isn't branded.Epson EcoTank ET-2850 Passwords, API keys, database credentials — one Google search away on public Trello boards.Trello One admin click. Every document in the company fed to third-party AI.Notion AI 4 billion phone numbers harvested. Your privacy, decided by someone else's download.Truecaller Your vacuum cleaner, weaponised.Ecovacs Deebot X2 Two aisles apart. Two different privacy regimes.Costco App Your face, in a database, for twelve-dollar towels.Kmart Australia You downloaded a bargain store. Arkansas says you downloaded spyware.Temu Hackers came in through the air conditioning.Target App / Circle The largest private surveillance network in America, on your front porch.Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro Ring employees used the camera to watch you undress.Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro Your smart plug is now an unpatched entry point to your home network. Permanently.Wemo Smart Home The fish tank of 2025 is a grow light.Mars Hydro IoT Grow Lights The company that sold it has gone silent.Nexx Smart Garage Controller This is not a vulnerability. This is an absence of security.Nexx Smart Garage Controller You bought a pet. It reports to Beijing.Unitree Go2 Robot Dog Your hotel room lock has been bypassable for 36 years.Saflok Hotel Locks Less secure than a $5 combination padlock from 1970.Master Lock Smart Padlock Your family movie night, screenshotted 120 times per minute, by a Chinese company.Hisense Smart TV Instagram had encrypted DMs. Meta removed them 11 days before a new law.Instagram Your cancer diagnosis, sent to an advertising company via a tracking pixel.Facebook SDK / Meta Pixel The data that destroyed his career started as "anonymous app analytics."Facebook SDK / Meta Pixel The privacy settings were a placebo. The SDK ignored them.Facebook SDK / Meta Pixel The only social network that requires your actual home address.Nextdoor Tubi's Super Bowl ad was designed to make you think someone hijacked your TV.Tubi You can buy a pre-infected streaming box with same-day delivery.Cheap Android TV Boxes (BadBox 2.0)The company the IRS chose to provide free tax filing spent years hiding it.IRS Free File / Direct File GM sold your driving data to insurance companies. Behind your back.GM OnStar / Chevrolet Connected Services The company building luxury cars couldn't secure its own source code.Mercedes-Benz MB.OS / MBUX The connected car was connected to anyone who found the door.Subaru Starlink Connected Services VW stored it all in the cloud and forgot to lock the door.VW ID.4 / Cariad Platform The privacy-first wearable became a Meta product. Everything it recorded now belongs to an ad company.Limitless Pendant Your glasses recorded your most private moments and sent them to Kenya.Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Kajabi tells you they don't sell your data. Their own CCPA disclosure says they do.Kajabi The BBB gave Kajabi an F. They ignored 15 out of 18 complaints.Kajabi You pay $199/month for "your own app." Kajabi built it, hosts it, and keeps the data.Kajabi Eight scraping tools harvest Skool member data. Some don't even need a login.Skool Skool's privacy policy doesn't apply to paid communities. That's their entire business.Skool Mighty Networks says it only collects your IP address. It processes 9 billion data points per month.Mighty Networks Your yoga community data goes to Palo Alto. Adriene's face is on the app. Mighty Networks has the database.KULA by Yoga With Adriene Teachable looks like a New York company. Since 2020, it's owned by a Brazilian company you've never heard of.Teachable Your course progress vanishes 30 days after the creator leaves Teachable. Your certificate goes with it.Teachable Patreon left a debugging tool on its production server. 2.3 million users' private messages were published online.Patreon Stop using Patreon and your data sits there for a decade. Ten years of private messages and home addresses.Patreon Stan Store's privacy policy is a PDF nobody will ever find. The buyer has no idea who really has their data.Stan Store Start typing your card into a Stan Store checkout and change your mind? Stripe already captured what you typed.Stan Store Tony Robbins Arena. 30,000 members. Developer: Mighty Software, Inc. Support email: help@mightynetworks.com.Tony Robbins Arena Jim Kwik teaches you to optimise your brain. His app hasn't been updated since 2023. It's not his app.Kwik Brain Universe Matthew Hussey's members share heartbreak and dating struggles. Mighty Networks stores it all.Matthew Hussey LoveLife Marie Forleo invested in Mighty Networks. Then she sent her students' data to it.Marie Forleo One creator. Two apps. Three companies with your data. That's how the influencer economy works.Find What Feels Good

684Devices analyzed

4,359Manufacturer lies found

1239Critical severity

2108High severity

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They're not stopping

The companies we've already caught are expanding into new domains. Every expansion combines what they already know about you with something new.

THREAT Surveillance expansion

Precise GPS tracking under new US ownership

🇨🇳 TikTok · ByteDance

New TikTok USDS privacy policy adds precise geolocation, AI interaction data collection, and expanded off-platform advertising network. Previous ByteDance-era policy explicitly ...

RISK Platform restructure

Platform splitting into three tiers from June 2026

🇺🇸 Roblox · Roblox

Roblox Kids (ages 5-8, no chat), Roblox Select (9-15), and standard accounts (16+). Major restructure under legal pressure from 10+ US states, EU Parliament, and Australia (A$49...

iOS 27 Siri redesign and dedicated AI chatbot app

🇺🇸 Apple iPhone 15 · Apple

Major Siri overhaul at WWDC plus a new standalone chatbot app. Expands AI processing across the device with deeper system integration — Siri moving from voice assistant to persi...

Dedicated genai.apple.com AI platform

🇺🇸 Apple iPhone 15 · Apple

Apple registered genai.apple.com ahead of WWDC — signals a standalone AI platform separate from existing services. Dedicated infrastructure suggests expanded data processing for...

Built-in on-device AI for content generation

🇺🇸 Google Chrome · Google

Chrome adding on-device AI APIs for content generation, moderation, and enhancement. Enables websites to run AI models locally through browser APIs — expanding Chrome from a ren...

Image authenticity verification tool

🇺🇸 ChatGPT · OpenAI

OpenAI releasing tool to verify if images were AI-generated. Users submit images for analysis — creating a new data ingestion pathway where OpenAI processes user-submitted photo...

The worst we found

Not opinions. Not speculation. Documented evidence from FTC filings, court records, security research, and leaked internal documents.

🇺🇸 Microsoft

Microsoft launched Recall — a feature that screenshots your screen every few seconds and stores a searchable AI database of everything you do. Microsoft said screenshots were "always encrypted." Security researcher Kevin Beaumont built a free tool called TotalRecall that could co...

Fail — 29 critical

🇺🇸 Meta Platforms

Facebook makes $135 billion a year letting advertisers target you based on 52,000 things they know about you. They say they don't 'sell' your data — technically, they sell access to you. Under Califor...

Fail — 11 critical

LastPass Password Manager

LastPass told 33 million users it had "zero-knowledge" architecture — meaning they could never see your data. The 2022 breach proved that was a lie. Website URLs, email addresses, company names, and f...

Fail — 9 critical

Wall of Shame

The 10 worst privacy offenders across 684 products. Every entry is backed by regulatory filings, security research, or court documents.

🇺🇸 Microsoft · 66 contradictions

You paid for the OS. It sells you ads, ignores your privacy settings, and screenshots everything you do. Hardened version costs extra.

29 critical 34 high

Apple iOS / macOS

🇺🇸 Apple · 38 contradictions

Privacy. That's iPhone. Unless you count the analytics they send when you opt out, the Siri recordings contractors listened to, or the iCloud data they hand to law enforcement.

19 critical 18 high

Android / Google Play Services

🇺🇸 Google · 28 contradictions

Google knows where you are, even when you tell it not to. It settled for $391 million over that. Then kept doing it.

12 critical 15 high

🇺🇸 Meta Platforms · 17 contradictions

$10 billion in fines. Myanmar genocide. 87 million profiles harvested. Manipulated 700,000 people's emotions as an experiment. The FTC has fined them three times and they're still violating.

11 critical 6 high

LastPass Password Manager

🇺🇸 GoTo · 18 contradictions

Claimed 'zero-knowledge' encryption. Hackers stole 25.6 million vaults. URLs, email addresses, and company names were stored unencrypted. $438 million stolen from cracked vaults.

9 critical 8 high

🇺🇸 Roblox · 15 contradictions

8 critical 7 high

Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

🇺🇸 Meta · 16 contradictions

Turns every wearer into a walking surveillance camera. Identifies strangers by name on the street.

8 critical 6 high

🇨🇳 ByteDance · 11 contradictions

'Everything is seen in China.' Keylogger in the browser. Reads your clipboard. Drives teens to suicide content in 20 minutes. Banned by the Supreme Court.

8 critical 3 high

🇺🇸 Meta Platforms · 11 contradictions

Meta's own research proved it harms teen girls. They buried it and started building Instagram for kids. 1,867 lawsuits. Families of dead children are suing.

8 critical 3 high

Wyze Cam (Platform)

🇺🇸 Wyze Labs · 13 contradictions

7 critical 5 high

Danger List

Products where the harm isn't just data collection. Documented child exploitation, confirmed spyware, state surveillance, or physical safety risks.

Product	Why it's dangerous	Who's at risk
Roblox	146 lawsuits. Hindenburg called it "a pedophile hellscape." 103,000-member predator group. Safety outsourced at $12/day. Age verification reclassifies children as adults.	Children
Snapchat	10,000 sextortion reports/month. Disappearing messages destroy evidence of crimes. Drug dealer pipeline to teenagers. "A pipeline for predators" — NM Attorney General.	Teenagers
Temu	Independent experts unanimously classified as "very virulent malware/spyware." Can rewrite itself on your phone. Sister app suspended by Google for exploiting 50 Android vulnerabilities.	Everyone who installs it
WeChat	State surveillance infrastructure. Police use it as plug-and-play tracking. Uyghur families traced through payment records. Social Credit integration controls travel.	1.3B captive users
Shein	Clothing contains lead at 20x safe limits. PFAS "forever chemicals." Workers earn $0.04/garment. "Refuse all" cookies button did nothing. Breach covered up (6.4M disclosed vs 39M actual).	Consumers & workers
Grindr	Shared HIV status with advertisers. Location data outed a Catholic priest. Sold to China, forced to divest on national security grounds. Egyptian police used it to arrest gay men. Triangulation locates users within meters.	LGBTQ+ users worldwide
ClassDojo	Five-year-olds publicly scored on behavior with sound effects. Behavioral profiles stored indefinitely until NYT exposed it. In 95% of US schools. Disproportionately punishes children with ADHD and autism.	Children (ages 5+)
Westpac	$1.3 billion AUSTRAC fine — 23 million AML violations. Facilitated payments to the Philippines linked to child exploitation. CEO called it "a few issues." Largest corporate fine in Australian history.	Children (exploitation payments)
Binance	$4.3B DOJ settlement. Processed transactions for Hamas, ISIS, and al-Qaeda. CEO pleaded guilty. 300+ October 7 victims suing. KYC documents of 60,000 users leaked. Fired investigators who found $1B Iran violations.	Terror financing / identity theft
Huawei HarmonyOS	Tested "Uyghur alarm" facial recognition for police. Patented ethnic classification (Han/Uyghur). Vodafone found backdoors — Huawei hid them, then refused to remove them. Five Eyes ban. Unauditable closed-source kernel.	200M+ users / Uyghur minority
Life360	Sold children's precise GPS to a dozen data brokers. The Markup exposed it as one of the largest location data suppliers in the industry. Former employees confirmed it was the primary revenue source. FTC banned the practice in 2024.	Children & families (50M users)

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