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‘Girls Around Me’ Shows a Dark Side of Social Networks
By Cameron Scott , PCWORLD.COM
John M. Simpson, the director of Consumer Watchdog’s privacy project, said even if people understand what data they’re sharing on social networks, they don’t expect it to be “reconfigured so they can be hit upon. Just because something is technologically possible is no justification for necessarily doing it,” he said.
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Google Guns for Facebook With Third-Party Comment Platform
By Richard Adhikari , TECHNEWSWORLD.COM
28. March 2012
“However Google configures this, it’s clear that it’s all about competing with Facebook and keeping users logged into Google’s services,” John Simpson, consumer advocate at Consumer Watchdog, told TechNewsWorld. “Google is terrified of Facebook’s gains and is doing everything possible to fight them.”
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FTC Releases Online Privacy Report: Does It Go Too Far? Not Far Enough?
By Matt Peckham , TIME MAGAZINE
27. March 2012
The FTC report is being celebrated by groups like nonprofit Consumer Watchdog, whose director John Simpson said in a statement: “The FTC’s support of Do Not Track means that consumers should have a meaningful way to control the tracking of their online activities by the end of the year.”
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US Regulators Demand Consumer Privacy Protection
By Jeffrey Burt , TECH WEEK EUROPE
27. March 2012
“Data brokers buy, compile and sell a wealth of highly personal information about you, but there’s no way to find out what they have or if it’s correct,” John Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog’s Privacy Project, said in a statement. “That’s why the FTC’s call for legislation in this area is so important.”
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U.S. Agency Seeks Tougher Consumer Privacy Rules
By Tanzina Vega & Edward Wyatt, THE NEW YORK TIMES
27. March 2012
Consumer privacy advocates mostly favored the commission’s final report. “Data brokers buy, compile and sell a wealth of highly personal information about you, but there’s no way to find out what they have or if it’s correct,” said John M. Simpson, the head of Consumer Watchdog, which advocates for digital privacy. “That’s why the F.T.C.’s call for legislation in this area is so important.”
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FTC Calls for Laws to Protect Consumer Privacy on Internet
By Byron Acohido , USA TODAY
27. March 2012
“An important consensus is emerging on the need to take significant steps to protect online privacy rights,” says John Simpson, spokesman for the non-profit Consumer Watchdog advocacy group.
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FTC Online Privacy Report Lays Out New Standards
By James Temple , THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
27. March 2012
John Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog’s Privacy Project, said the FTC should have called for legislation on Do Not Track as well. But overall the report represents progress on data privacy, he said.
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FTC Backs ‘Do Not Track’ Feature In Final Privacy Report
By Drew Bowling , WEBPRONEWS.COM
26. March 2012
Following the report’s release, Consumer Watchdog, an organization whose name leaves little to imagination as to its purpose, praised the FTC for supporting the ‘Do Not Track’ mechanism that will hopefully return control of data collection to the people of the internet. Consumer Watchdog has been at this fight for a couple of years, working to get consumer privacy reform at the top of the government’s to-do list. “Those efforts are paying off,” said John M. Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog’s Privacy Project. “The FTC’s support of Do Not Track means that consumers should have a meaningful way to control the tracking of their online activities by the end of the year.”
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Reding: Google Privacy Policy Is Illegal
By Clint Boulton , eWEEK.COM
5. March 2012
California-based Google critic Consumer Watchdog called Google’s sweeping changes a “spy policy” rather than a privacy policy, an allusion to the fact that the move will help Google funnel data on users in one larger silo for targeted ads.
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Google Privacy Policy Strikes Out With EU, Others
By Pete Barlas , INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
1. March 2012
“Calling this a privacy policy is Orwellian doublespeak,” John Simpson, privacy project director for Consumer Watchdog and a longtime Google critic, said in a statement. “Google isn’t telling you about protecting your privacy. Google is telling you how they will gather information about you on all of its services, combine it in new ways and use the fat new digital dossiers to sell more ads. They’re telling you how they plan to spy on you.”
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Google Enforces New Privacy Policy, Despite International Outcry About Its Implications
By Marc Pinter-Krainer , ONENEWSPAGE.COM
1. March 2012
“Calling this a ‘privacy policy’ is Orwellian doublespeak,” said John M. Simpson, Consumer Watchdog’s Privacy Project Director. “Google isn’t telling you about protecting your privacy. Google is telling you how they will gather information about you on all its services, combine it in new ways and use the fat new digital dossiers to sell more ads. They’re telling you how they plan to spy on you. It’s a spy policy.”
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Google Rolls Out New Privacy Policy Amid Howls
By Staff Writers , AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
1. March 2012
“Calling this a ‘privacy policy’ is Orwellian doublespeak,” said John Simpson of the US advocacy group Consumer Watchdog.
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Google’s Privacy Rules Grow, But Do Protections?
By Quentin Fottrell , SMARTMONEY BLOG - WSJ.COM
1. March 2012
“Google claims that it’s attempting to streamline its policies — in fact, it’s about building even more detailed digital dossiers about the people who use Google services so that Google will get more ad revenue.,” says John M. Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog’s Privacy Project, a California-based non-profit organization.“
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