Compete, Inc. Collected Personal Data Including Keystrokes

Compete "captured information consumers entered into websites, including consumers’ usernames, passwords, and search terms, and also some sensitive information such as credit card and financial account information, security codes and expiration dates, and Social Security Numbers."

Two analytics companies to settle charges for online user tracking
http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13820

Compete Inc. Settles FTC Privacy Charges
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/network-security/compete-inc.-settles-ftc-privacy-charges.html

Compete Inc. is owned by Taylor Nelson Sofres, which is in turn owned by WPP plc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compete.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Nelson_Sofres

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPP_Group

You can own WPP. The shares are publicly traded on the London (WPP.L) and NASDAQ (WPPGY) exchanges. 

Slashdot story and comments:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/10/24/2235211/analytics-company-settles-charges-for-user-tracking

The penalties seem extremely light, considering that Compete Inc. (and hence WPP) violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) by committing fraud involving Protected Computers, which is a felony.