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|Boundary, a multiplayer online-only first-person shooter, got shut down just a year after its release by Skystone games, and its publishing rights relinquished, citing "ongoing delays and a lack of updates from the developer". Studio Surgical Scalpels (the developer) stated that the publisher decissions were "extremely sudden and unreasonable", and attempted to "regain the rights to boundary". The game has been offline for more than a year at the time of writing, and no refunds or communications to the userbase has been made by Skystone Games.

|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-19 |title=Boundary - End of service notice |url=https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1364020/view/4209257868262605607?l=english |url-status=live |access-date=2025-07-07 |website=Steam}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-30 |title=Boundary Shut Down: Who's to Blame? |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8IhV1fovE |url-status=live}}</ref>

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|[[Automatic Content Recognition (ACR)]]

|Smart TVs of multiple brands have a feature called Automatic Content Recognition, which sends several screenshots per minute of whatever plays on the device to the manufacturer for analysis. This includes content from external inputs and thus could include private photos and videos of the user, as well as third parties who never agreed to anything of that nature. This is required to be opt-in in the US, but most people inadvertently agree to it with the EULA of the device.

|<ref>{{Cite web |first=Rachel Cericola, Jon Chase and Lee Neikirk |date=2025-06-25 |title=Yes, Your TV Is Probably Spying on You. Your Fridge, Too. Here’s What They Know. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/advice-smart-devices-data-tracking/ |access-date=2025-07-09 |website=The New York Times - Wirecutter}}</ref>

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Companies like Apple comply with regulations such as those imposed by the EU by trying to follow the wording, but not the spirit of the legislation. For instance, there were early reports that Apple would support USB-C, but only with Apple certified devices and cables, allowing them to continue the lucrative "Made for iPhone" certification programme. They only backtracked when the EU indicated this would not be considered compliant with the USB-C mandate.

|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Malicious Compliance |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance |website=Wikipedia}}</ref>

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|Not applicable

|[[Financial censorship|Financial Censorship]]

This came up in the recent Valve controversies about removing Games because of pressure from payment providers. It is the concept that US payment providers have pretty much a monopoly world-wide and can thus control which content websites can publish and what goods they can sell because they can threaten to revoke their access to payments.

|<ref>{{Cite web |title=https://www.eff.org/issues/financial-censorship |url= |website=EFF}}</ref>

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|[[QIDI]]

|3D printer causes disastrous fire; subreddit staff attempts to cover up incident.

|<ref>{{Cite web |last=u/ProgressLocal1511 |date=Mar 30, 2025 |title=R/QidiTech3d Permanently banned me for warning people after my family lost everything from a fire! |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1jnuju1/rqiditech3d_permanently_banned_me_for_warning/ |access-date=Jul 23, 2025 |website=[[Reddit]]}}</ref><!-- Also crossposted to:

https://www.reddit.com/r/3dprinter/comments/1jnul43/rqiditech3d_permanently_banned_me_for_warning/

https://www.reddit.com/r/QIDI/comments/1jnukyg/rqiditech3d_permanently_banned_me_for_warning/ -->

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|[[Microsoft]]

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|Mass facial-recognition cameras and facial-recognition vans

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~~|Google~~

~~|Android intending to ban sideloading of unverified applications by 2026/7, further centralizing control to Google and eroding freedom on Google builds of Android.~~

|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Whitwam |first=Ryan |date=2025-08-25 |title=Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250825213045/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/ |archive-date=2025-08-25 |access-date=2025-08-25 |website=Ars Technica}}</ref>

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|[[H&R Block]]

|Marketing paid products as free, deleting users' tax data upon downgrading to free versions, and forcing users to contact support to get access to the free version of the tax filing software. FTC alleges coercive and obstructive techniques are used to make users pay for services they don't need as well.

|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-23 |title=FTC Takes Action Against Tax Prep Company H&R Block For Wiping Consumers’ Data, Deceptively Marketing ‘Free’ Online Filing |url=https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/ftc-takes-action-against-tax-prep-company-hr-block-wiping-consumers-data-deceptively-marketing-free |url-status=live |access-date=2025-08-25 |website=Federal Trade Commission}}</ref>

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~~|Motorola~~

~~|Motorola makes the L5M Mobile LPR~~

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~~|N/A~~

~~|Patriot Act~~

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~~|A where-to-find guide for DRM-free e-books and audiobooks, games, movies, music~~

|Suggest to compile resources where DRM-free digital content can be purchased, such as Rakuten-Kobo's DRM-free section, ebooks.com, smashwords, storybundle, libro.fm, bandcamp, etc. Not to say all these stores/companies are great in other respects. Currently, DRM is discussed in fragments throughout the wiki.

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 |Boundary, a multiplayer online-only first-person shooter, got shut down just a year after its release by Skystone games, and its publishing rights relinquished, citing "ongoing delays and a lack of updates from the developer". Studio Surgical Scalpels (the developer) stated that the publisher decissions were "extremely sudden and unreasonable", and attempted to "regain the rights to boundary". The game has been offline for more than a year at the time of writing, and no refunds or communications to the userbase has been made by Skystone Games.
 |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-19 |title=Boundary - End of service notice |url=https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1364020/view/4209257868262605607?l=english |url-status=live |access-date=2025-07-07 |website=Steam}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-30 |title=Boundary Shut Down: Who's to Blame? |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8IhV1fovE |url-status=live}}</ref>
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+|[[Automatic Content Recognition (ACR)]]
+|Smart TVs of multiple brands have a feature called Automatic Content Recognition, which sends several screenshots per minute of whatever plays on the device to the manufacturer for analysis. This includes content from external inputs and thus could include private photos and videos of the user, as well as third parties who never agreed to anything of that nature. This is required to be opt-in in the US, but most people inadvertently agree to it with the EULA of the device.
+|<ref>{{Cite web |first=Rachel Cericola, Jon Chase and Lee Neikirk |date=2025-06-25 |title=Yes, Your TV Is Probably Spying on You. Your Fridge, Too. Here’s What They Know. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/advice-smart-devices-data-tracking/ |access-date=2025-07-09 |website=The New York Times - Wirecutter}}</ref>
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 |Not applicable
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 Companies like Apple comply with regulations such as those imposed by the EU by trying to follow the wording, but not the spirit of the legislation. For instance, there were early reports that Apple would support USB-C, but only with Apple certified devices and cables, allowing them to continue the lucrative "Made for iPhone" certification programme. They only backtracked when the EU indicated this would not be considered compliant with the USB-C mandate.
 |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Malicious Compliance |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance |website=Wikipedia}}</ref>
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+|Not applicable
+|[[Financial censorship|Financial Censorship]]
+This came up in the recent Valve controversies about removing Games because of pressure from payment providers. It is the concept that US payment providers have pretty much a monopoly world-wide and can thus control which content websites can publish and what goods they can sell because they can threaten to revoke their access to payments.
+|<ref>{{Cite web |title=https://www.eff.org/issues/financial-censorship |url= |website=EFF}}</ref>
+|-
+|[[QIDI]]
+|3D printer causes disastrous fire; subreddit staff attempts to cover up incident.
+|<ref>{{Cite web |last=u/ProgressLocal1511 |date=Mar 30, 2025 |title=R/QidiTech3d Permanently banned me for warning people after my family lost everything from a fire! |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1jnuju1/rqiditech3d_permanently_banned_me_for_warning/ |access-date=Jul 23, 2025 |website=[[Reddit]]}}</ref><!-- Also crossposted to:
+https://www.reddit.com/r/3dprinter/comments/1jnul43/rqiditech3d_permanently_banned_me_for_warning/
+https://www.reddit.com/r/QIDI/comments/1jnukyg/rqiditech3d_permanently_banned_me_for_warning/ -->
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 |[[Microsoft]]
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 |Mass facial-recognition cameras and facial-recognition vans
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-|Google
-|Android intending to ban sideloading of unverified applications by 2026/7, further centralizing control to Google and eroding freedom on Google builds of Android.
-|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Whitwam |first=Ryan |date=2025-08-25 |title=Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year |url=https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250825213045/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/ |archive-date=2025-08-25 |access-date=2025-08-25 |website=Ars Technica}}</ref>
 |-
 |[[H&R Block]]
 |Marketing paid products as free, deleting users' tax data upon downgrading to free versions, and forcing users to contact support to get access to the free version of the tax filing software. FTC alleges coercive and obstructive techniques are used to make users pay for services they don't need as well.
-|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-23 |title=FTC Takes Action Against Tax Prep Company H&R Block For Wiping Consumers’ Data, Deceptively Marketing ‘Free’ Online Filing |url=https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/ftc-takes-action-against-tax-prep-company-hr-block-wiping-consumers-data-deceptively-marketing-free |url-status=live |access-date=2025-08-25 |website=Federal Trade Commission}}</ref>
-|-
-|Motorola
-|Motorola makes the L5M Mobile LPR
-|
-|-
-|N/A
-|Patriot Act
-|
-|-
-|A where-to-find guide for DRM-free e-books and audiobooks, games, movies, music
-|Suggest to compile resources where DRM-free digital content can be purchased, such as Rakuten-Kobo's DRM-free section, ebooks.com, smashwords, storybundle, libro.fm, bandcamp, etc. Not to say all these stores/companies are great in other respects. Currently, DRM is discussed in fragments throughout the wiki.
 |
 |}