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2/17/2012
By John M. Simpson
Google is facing more questions from Congress. The Internet giant's deliberate circumventing of privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser -- that's the one used on iPhones and iPads -- is prompting the outrage. The deliberate privacy breach was discovered by Stanford University researcher Jonathan Mayer and reported first by...
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2/14/2012
By John M. Simpson
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have cleared Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, but are vowing to keep a close eye on the Internet giant's behavior after the deal goes through.
What concerns both the European Commission and the U.S. Justice Department is how Google will use Motorola's powerful mobile...
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2/13/2012
By Carmen Balber
Two heavyweights - Senator Dianne Feinstein and Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones - went to bat for health reform at the Democratic Convention in San Diego this weekend, and activists' embrace of their call to action was loud and immediate.
In a luncheon speech on Saturday, Senator Feinstein went after health insurance companies for...
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2/9/2012
By Harvey Rosenfield
I became a lawyer so there would be days like yesterday.
Over the last few years, a number of people have asked me for help in getting an insurance company named Senior Health Insurance of Pennsylvania – SHIP, for short – to pay claims that were filed by their parents, who’d bought SHIP policies years ago in case they needed...
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2/8/2012
By John M. Simpson
Our friends at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) went to court Wednesday to block Google from combining data gathered from its various services without users' consent.
The Internet giant recently announced it would consolidate more than 60 privacy policies into one and that it would combine a user's data collected on...
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2/7/2012
By Jamie Court
Shouldn't the CEOs of health insurance companies like Blue Shield have to sign under penalty of perjury that their rate hikes are justified? If the first online signature gathering for a ballot petition is successful, Californians will vote on that proposition in November, and are almost sure to approve.
One year ago I stood at the Blue...
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2/2/2012
By Jamie Court
We are doing it! Today we launched our ballot initiative drive to force health insurance companies to publicly justify their rates and get permission for rate hikes.
If you are a registered voter in California, your signature today can stop outrageous health insurance premium increases. Please:
1) Click on this link: www.Justify Rates....
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1/27/2012
By John M. Simpson
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Online privacy got a tremendous boost this week when the European Commission proposed its new data protection rules that -- among other important safeguards -- would prove for the "right to be forgotten" online.
But that's not all that's been happening since I arrived in this city that is home to the...
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1/25/2012
By Judy Dugan
The Hyundai Elantra keeps on losing fans because its real-world MPG, for most drivers, doesn't come close to the advertised 33 mpg combined, or even the advertised 29 mpg city. We're especially interested in hearing from California drivers who are having this problem.
On the auto site Edmonds.com, there's now even a reader...
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1/23/2012
By Jamie Court
It’s been a big day for those of us who have been making the case that Google steers users not to the most relevant products and services, but to its own services. This morning in Brussels, Consumer Watchdog called upon European privacy officials to investigate such antitrust issues, including how “the recent...
