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Google Algorithm Biased Against California Privacy Initiative Prop 24; Consumer Watchdog Calls For Investigation And Hearings

Los Angeles, CA -- Consumer Watchdog today called for the Senate Elections Committee to investigate why a Google search for Prop 24 was, until last night, the only one of...

Google Begins Encrypting Domain Name Lookups

By Wendy Davis, MEDIAPOST DIGITAL NEWS DAILY May 20, 2020 https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/351605/google-begins-encrypting-domain-name-lookups.html In a move touted as boosting privacy and security, Google on Tuesday rolled out a relatively new encryption technology for domain...

Consumer Watchdog Calls on Federal Trade Commission to Investigate Amazon For Unfair and Deceptive Spying Practices  

Los Angeles, CA -- Consumer Watchdog today called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and take action against Amazon for deceptively recording consumers and  their children with its Echo...

Consumer Watchdog Joins Coalition of 22 Consumer and Privacy Groups Calling on FTC to End Google’s Apps Store’s Exploitation of Kids

Consumer Watchdog has joined a coalition of 22 consumer and public health advocacy groups calling on the Federal Trade Commission to stop Google’s app store from promoting games that...

Google’s Second Failure to Protect Data Security on Its Social Network Shows Need for California Privacy Law

LOS ANGELES -- Google’s revelation today that its social network Google+ suffered a second major security lapse in less than a year makes clear the Internet giant cannot be...

U.S., European Consumer Groups Call on FTC to Investigate Google for Deceptively Tracking Android Phone Users

An association of more than 75 consumer groups on both sides of the Atlantic is asking the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate Google for unfairly and deceptively manipulating...

California DMV Must Release Waymo’s Robot Car Insurance Details, Says Consumer Watchdog

LOS ANGELES, CA – Consumer Watchdog today called on the California Department of Motor Vehicles to release details of Waymo’s insurance coverage for the 39 driverless robot cars the...

Google+ Data Breach Shows Internet Giant Cannot Be Trusted to Police Its Platform

LOS ANGELES – The data breach of Google’s social network, Google+, that the company hid since last March, shows that the Internet Giant cannot be trusted to police its...

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