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News Release
2/22/2012
CONTACT John M. Simpson
SANTA MONICA, CA --- Consumer Watchdog today praised state attorneys general for voicing their concerns about Google’s changes in privacy polices and asking for a meeting with the Internet giant’s CEO Larry Page.
Attorneys general from 35 other states and territories joined Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler in sending the...
News Release
2/22/2012
CONTACT John M. Simpson
SANTA MONICA, CA – California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ agreement announced today committing the leading operators of mobile application platforms to require privacy policies for applications ("apps") is a step forward, Consumer Watchdog said, but in addition “Do Not Track” regulations must be implemented...
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2/22/2012
KGO-SF, ABC 7: ABC 7's Michael Finney discusses how an effort to qualify a ballot initiative that would regulate health insurance rates is shaping up to be a huge battle. Emotions are running high as average citizens struggle to keep up with staggering insurance premium rate hikes.
You can print and sign the petition at JustifyRates.org
Video
2/21/2012
CBS Evening News reports on how Google has been circumventing privacy settings on the Safari web browser to track users as they surf the web. Stanford University graduate student Jonathan Mayer did the research that revealed what the Internet giant was doing. John M. Simpson, Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Project Director, said tracking user...
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2/21/2012
Jamie Court's appearance on Midday Sunday, discussing the campaign to get a proposition on the California ballot which will force health insurers to justify their rates before they take effect.
Sign the petition at JustifyRates.org.
Blog Post
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...
News Release
2/17/2012
CONTACT John M. Simpson
SANTA MONICA, CA – In the wake of a Stanford University researcher’s study that found Google has been violating people’s online privacy choices, Consumer Watchdog said today the Internet giant was lying to users and called for the Federal Trade Commission to act. iPhone and iPad users were targeted.
“Google has...
Video
2/16/2012
In a speech in San Diego, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein goes after health insurance companies for excessive increases in consumers' premiums, often more than once a year, even as insurers continue raking in huge profits. Feinstein calls on activists to join the fight and circulate petitions for a California ballot initiative that will...
News Release
2/15/2012
CONTACT John M. Simpson
WASHINGTON, DC -- Consumer Watchdog has asked the House Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee Committee to hold hearings on Google's new privacy and data policy and to call Google CEO Larry Page " to explain his company's disingenuous statements about its supposed commitment to users' privacy."
Consumer Watchdog...
Blog Post
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...
