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Big corporations target more than our money. Consumer Watchdog's book Corporateering showed how how corporations routinely and quietly rob us of our personal freedoms, including privacy, security, the right to legal recourse, and more. "Corporateering" - the act of prioritizing commercial gain over individual, social, or cultural gain - is everywhere in our lives. Consumer Watchdog works to protect individuals from the corporate assualt on their rights and freedoms.
Here's a perfect example of why a non-medical company with no relationship to the patient should never be allowed access to patient information without permission first - as a ...
A bill passed its second California Senate committee this week that would give an ever-wider circle of companies access to Californians' private medical information. SB 1096 by Senator Ron Calderon would allow pharmacies to give...
It's amazing how fast Gov. Schwarzenegger reacts when it's his wife, Maria Shriver, whose medical records are being snooped. "This kind of practice has been happening all over the state, wherever there's celebrities involved" including himself, Schwarzenegger said at an unrelated news conference today. He reiterated that his administration is "working with UCLA," where the leaks were uncovered by an excellent LA Times investigation--and hadn't even been reported to state regulators.
Allstate made a surprise decision to release internal documents about claims handling procedures that they've been fighting to keep secret in court for over a decade. The documents...
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