Data Privacy
Data breaches, user data sales, surveillance capitalism practices
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Supported
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Opposed
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Mixed
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Silent
All Stances (14)
Settled a class action lawsuit for $95 million in January 2025 over claims that Siri secretly recorded private conversations — even without activation — and shared them with third-party advertisers for over a decade (2014–2024). Users received up to $20 per qualifying device. Court granted final approval; payments distributed January 2026.
Mercury closed accounts of customers in Ukraine, Belarus, Croatia, and Nicaragua in 2024 without warning, citing compliance review. Affected founders criticized lack of due process.
Wired investigation found Perplexity ignores robots.txt and scrapes content from blocked domains using stealth crawlers, contradicting public statements about respecting publisher preferences.
BeReal minimal data collection. Privacy-focused social app design.
Mixpanel privacy-focused analytics. GDPR compliant.
Segment customer data platform. Privacy controls but extensive tracking capabilities.
Gong records sales calls. Privacy concerns about call recording and AI analysis.
Apollo sales data platform. Uses extensive contact data scraping.
Moderna mRNA technology leader. COVID vaccine developer.
Whoop collects extensive health data. Privacy policies questioned.
Oura ring health tracking. Subscription model changed. Data collection concerns.
23andMe massive data breach exposed 6.9M users. Genetic data privacy concerns.
Plaid agreed to a $58M class-action settlement in 2022 over claims it collected more user banking data than necessary. Company denied wrongdoing but reformed disclosures.
Cambridge Analytica harvested 87M users' data without consent for political targeting. $5B FTC fine (largest ever). $725M class action settlement. Zuckerberg testified to Congress. Data shared with 6,000+ developers without user knowledge.