data misuse
Wrongful information handling
Data misuse is the handling of information in ways that violate its intended purpose, user expectations, or legal restrictions.
A company commits data misuse when it sells customer information without consent or uses it for undisclosed purposes: The lawsuit alleged data misuse after the app shared location data with advertisers.
The term appears frequently in privacy debates and regulatory contexts.
- financial lossNegative monetary outcome
- identity theftStealing personal data criminally
- privacy violationUnauthorized access to personal information
- legal penaltiesPunishments imposed by courts
- emotional distressPsychological suffering or torment
intellectual property theft · whistleblower protections · scraping · algorithmic bias · surveillance capitalism · terms of service · consent violation · opt out · regulatory oversight · privacy invasion · unauthorized access · Cambridge Analytica · profiling · targeted ads · dark patterns · selling · personal information · harvesting
- privacy violationsinvasion of privacy, privacy invasion, privacy breach, eavesdropping, identity theft
- official misconductmalfeasance, ethics violation, misconduct, misfeasance, nonfeasance
- marketing blundersfalse advertising, misleading claims, false claims, overpromising, cultural insensitivity