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Incident backlog

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Unlike other pages on this wiki, this page is dedicated towards providing a backlog for users to update with potential incidents to cover in the future on the wiki. If you have covered an incident within this backlog, please make sure to delete the row from this page in order to prevent confusion. Additionally, all sources should be inserted within the 'refs' section of the table, and take advantage of 'insert reference' via 'ctrl + shift + k' so that the sources are quick to add to the article. Please attempt to include a variety of sources!

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Company Summary of Incident Refs
Nintendo In 2025, the company Nintendo stripped Switch 2 consoles that used the MIG switch cartridge of all online functionality [1][2]

List of incidents not yet covered

Company Summary of Incident Refs
Netflix Removal of games from mobile platform; games preinstalled to user devices will no-longer work; many are exclusively distributed by Netflix for mobile. [3]
Xlear The company Xlear was falsely marketing its nasal spray as a covid preventative, potentially harming consumers; the company wants to combat the FTC. [4]
Microsoft Anticompetitive behavior contributing to the damaging of the security of customer devices. [5]
Intuit Responsible for bribing the government for the purposes of making doing taxes more difficult, thus making the company more money via TurboTax payments, TT turned into tiered subscriptions to force users into paying extra for vital tools. Hid the free version from consumers. [6]
Samsung, Glance Using the faces of its devices' users for the purposes of generating ads with AI to display on the lock screen [7]
Facebook, Yandex De-anonymizing web browsing identifiers [8][9]
TikTok Integrated AI tools to track user behaviors even more for the purposes of selling to advertisers [10]
k.chicntech Selling fraudulent products on its platform [11]
T-Mobile Secretly recording the screens of users via T-Life app [12][13]
Ubisoft Forced online in single-player games for the purposes of data collection; violation of GDPR. [14][15]
Facebook, Yandex Automatic opt-in of user-generated content being used for the purposes of training AI. [16][17]
Star Force DRM; History of damaging the devices of honest consumers [18]
Google Terms enacted in April reserve it the right to analyze sensitive call data [19]
VidIQ Scraping user generated content so poorly that it puts users at risk of violating copyright law [20]
Waymo Using interior camera to train GenAI models; automatic opt-in [21]
Dymo 550 and newer models have DRM in the printer paper; older model printers bricked via a driver update. [22]
Google Numerous incidents listed under Wikipedia's Google Litigation page N/A

See Also

Reference List

  1. ↑ Scattered Brain (Jun 16, 2025). "Soo... Nintendo banned my Switch 2 (Don't try the MIG Switch!)". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 18, 2025.
  2. ↑ Orland, Kyle (Jun 17, 2025). "Switch 2 users report online console bans after running personal game "backups"". Ars Technica. Retrieved Jun 19, 2025.
  3. ↑ Parrish, Ash (Jun 24, 2025). "Netflix is letting go of some of its best indie games". The Verge. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  4. ↑ Feiner, Lauren (Jun 24, 2025). "A nasal spray company wants to make it harder for the FTC to police health claims". The Verge. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  5. ↑ Triplette, Ryan (Nov 15, 2024). "Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior weakens its customers' cybersecurity". Federal News Network. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  6. ↑ CinemaGuess (Jun 10, 2025). "How The Scammy Model of TurboTax Finally Died". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  7. ↑ Whitwam, Ryan (Jun 4, 2025). "Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads". Ars Technica. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  8. ↑ Wildeboer, Jan (Jun 03, 2025). "Wildeboer post from Jan Wildeboer". social.wildeboer.net. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. ↑ Goodin, Dan (Jun 3, 2025). "Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web browsing identifiers". Ars Technica. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  10. ↑ Sato, Mia (Jun 3, 2025). "TikTok will give advertisers even more data on trends and users". The Verge. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  11. ↑ Harding, Scharon (Jun 3, 2025). "Shopper denied $51 refund for 20TB HDD that's mostly a weighted plastic box". Ars Technica. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  12. ↑ u/Appropriate_Rain_770 (May 27, 2025). "T-Life App Under Fire as Users Spot Hidden Screen Recording". Reddit. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  13. ↑ Lee, Tyler (May 27, 2025). "T-Life App Under Fire as Users Spot Hidden Screen Recording". Android Headlines. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  14. ↑ Phillips, Tom (Apr 29, 2025). "Privacy firm files Ubisoft legal complaint over data collection, forced online in single-player games". Eurogamer. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  15. ↑ "Like to play alone? Ubisoft is still watching you!". noyb. April 24, 2025. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  16. ↑ Borgesius, Frederik (Apr 24, 2025). "Post on akademienl.social". akademienl.social. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  17. ↑ "AP: kom nu in actie als je niet wil dat Meta AI traint met jouw data". autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl. Apr 24, 2025. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  18. ↑ Modern Vintage Gamer (Mar 30, 2020). "StarForce - The PC CD-ROM DRM that broke your Computer | MVG". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  19. ↑ Saam, Conrad (Apr 24, 2025). "Google asserts ownership of all advertiser assets in Local Services Ads". Search Engine Land. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  20. ↑ CutCafe (Jan 24, 2025). "This AI tool is EXPLOITING small content creators (So I exposed it)". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  21. ↑ Bellan, Rebecca (Apr 8, 2025). "Waymo may use interior camera data to train generative AI models, but riders will be able to opt out". TechCrunch. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
  22. ↑ Malawey, David (Apr 3, 2025). "discard junkware and the extract pure value of Dymo". YouTube. Retrieved Jun 25, 2025.
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