The Zoom iOS app is sharing data with Facebook, without declaring it in the privacy policy. This happens whether or not you have a Facebook account. Data shared with Facebook includes your iPhone or iPad model, your time-zone, city, phone carrier and a unique identifier which can be used for ad-targeting... The discovery was made by Motherboard and confirmed by iOS security researcher Will Strafach.

Australia’s privacy watchdog is suing Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica data breach — which, back in 2018, became a global scandal that wiped billions off the tech giant’s share price yet only led to Facebook picking up a $5BN FTC fine. Should Australia prevail in its suit against the tech giant the monetary penalty could be exponentially larger.

Ring doorbells are providing customer data to companies such as Facebook and Google, an investigation suggests. The Electronic Frontier Foundation found the Ring app was "packed" with third-party tracking, sending out customers' personally identifiable information. Five companies were receiving a range of information, including names, IP addresses and mobile networks, it said.

Michael R. Bloomberg’s presidential campaign has been experimenting with novel tactics to cultivate an online following, or at least the appearance of one. But one of the strategies — deploying a large number of Twitter accounts to push out identical messages — has backfired. On Friday, Twitter began suspending 70 accounts posting pro-Bloomberg content in a pattern that violates company rules.

Both 'cum ex' and Enron scandals show how traders can manipulate complex financial regulations to their advantage.

Finally, the madness has taken its name: Winkgate. The gate opened when Australia’s prime minister, who has recently bungled his way from one scandal to the next, took a call from a listener on a radio show that was filmed.

Chicago's red light camera scandal deepened Wednesday with the federal indictment of a former Redflex Traffic Systems CEO on charges she and a top City Hall manager conspired to rig the camera business for a decade.

The public break between the CBC and Jian Ghomeshi, Canada’s best-loved radio host since Peter Gzowski, started last week with a discreet announcement that he was taking a leave from the broadcaster for personal reasons, days after the death of his father, with a reassurance that the mop-haired former rockstar was “okay.”

Chinese consumers are used to food safety scandals, from toxic heavy metals in their rice to cooking oil scraped up from the gutter. After those outrages, they might be grateful for some good old-fashioned painkillers in their soup.

Documents and expert opinion show there may be more to a single-vehicle wreck involving Mesa's police chief than he's ever disclosed. The dispatch log from the incident is missing nearly 40 pages and the official report includes no photographs, nor any record of any eyewitness account despite evidence of at least one witness coming forward.

In a televised address, the Duke of York said he wished to 'reiterate the denials of wrongdoing' issued by Buckingham Palace on his behalf.

Revising Old Hollywood’s Greatest Scandal. By Anne Helen Petersen.

Toshiba's president and CEO Hisao Tanaka is stepping down after an investigative panel found that company executives were complicit in misreported earnings. The independent report said that Toshiba had exaggerated its operating profit by ¥151.8 billion ($1.2 billion) over the past six years. Vice chairman and former CEO Norio Sasaki is also out, and current chairman Masashi Muromachi will take over the role of interim CEO from tomorrow.

The principal of an innovative West Harlem public school killed herself the day after her students took the state Common Core exams — which were later tossed out because she cheated

And yet somehow, the world's oldest profession survives.

Busted.

James Robb Taylor, 38, who owns Perkins Livestock Sales, was arrested on Tuesday for embezzling nearly a half-million dollars worth of cattle from his own operation.

Volkswagen says 11 million vehicles worldwide are involved in the scandal that has erupted over its rigging of US car emissions tests. It said it was setting aside €6.5bn (£4.7bn) to cover costs of the scandal. VW chief executive Martin Winterkorn issued a fresh apology for the test-rigging, saying he was "endlessly sorry" for the "manipulation". Earlier, the boss of Volkswagen's US business, Michael Horn, admitted the firm "totally screwed up".

Volkswagen has hired the US law firm that defended BP after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster to help it deal with a growing collection of investigations and law suits over the emissions scandal that has rocked the car maker and dragged in the German government. The hiring of Kirkland & Ellis emerged as the German government admitted that it already knew about “defeat devices” that can cheat emissions tests.

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and green technology wizard, thinks gasoline and diesel fuel are dead. Musk was addressing a room full of Flemish and Belgian reporters when one asked him to weigh in on the recent Volkswagen scandal, in which the company rigged its cars to fraudulently pass emissions tests. The reporter asked if he was worried it would cause people to “lose their faith” in green technology. “I think it’s the opposite,” Musk replied.