Companies

BT

telecommunications

20 😡

BT is a British telecommunications company that supplied military infrastructure used in drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia [1], overcharged customers by £600 million and concealed information about those overcharges [2][3][4], and engaged in price‑fixing schemes that underpaid freelancers [5]. It has also been responsible for failures that crippled the UK's emergency call handling system [6] and for unsafe working conditions that contributed to a technician's death due to lack of training [7].

EE

telecommunications

20 😡

EE is owned by BT.

Openreach

telecommunications

20 😡

Openreach is owned by BT.

Plusnet

telecommunications

20 😡

Plusnet is owned by BT.

Vodafone

telecommunications

38 😡

Vodafone, a telecommunications company, faces criticism for tax avoidance through Luxembourg subsidiaries [1] and fines for breaching consumer protection rules, including mishandling complaints [2]. Moreover, Vodafone's involvement in government surveillance through secret wires on its networks sparks privacy concerns [3], while allegations of overcharging customers after contract ends have emerged [4].

Zoom

tech

42 😐

Zoom is an American video‑conferencing platform that published terms of service permitting the company to train artificial intelligence on user data [1]. It has illegally shared user data with large technology firms [2][3] and, at the behest of the Chinese government, suspended the accounts of human‑rights activists discussing the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident [4][5].