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Consumer Privacy Advocates Seek Search Engine Solution
No one knows more about us—our ailments, significant others, favorite music, what we’re thinking about buying, and how much we spend—than our search engines. Virtually all search engines gather information about how searchers query, what they click, and where they wind up. This personal information (i.e., IP addresses, cookies, session IDs) is stored alongside queries for anywhere between 90 days and forever. "I think most users simply don’t realize the amount of personal information they provide," says John M. Simpson, a consumer policy advocate with the nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog.
Continue reading...Availability Of Online Health Records Sparks Privacy Concerns
Monday, February 16, 2009
Consumer advocacy groups, such as Patient Privacy Rights (PPR) and Consumer Watchdog, warn that such online records could pose a threat to patients' health privacy rights. PPR says the most recent health IT portion of the Senate version of the economic stimulus bill intoduces loopholes that allow the sale and misuse of personal health information.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Calls on Google to Cease Lobbying Effort to Allow Sale of Patient Medical Records; Urges Congress to Adopt Privacy Protections in Economic Stimulus Bill
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Santa Monica, CA -- The non-partisan Consumer Watchdog called on Google today to cease a rumored lobbying effort aimed at allowing the sale of electronic medical records in the current version of the Economic Stimulus legislation. Consumer Watchdog called on Congress to remove loopholes in the ban on the sale of medical records and include other privacy protections absent from the current bill such as giving patients the right to an audit detailing who had accessed their medical records and how the records were used.
Continue reading...Google Defends Privacy of Gmail Service
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
A Santa Monica, California-based nonprofit group that advocates for consumers is calling for the Internet’s search and ad leader to change the way it records users’ information. Officials with Consumer Watchdog say they want to see Google Inc. store personal search data for less than its current nine months, following Yahoo!’s lead, and also to give users a choice to “opt out” out of data retention, as some other search engines do.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog: Google Made First Political Contributions
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
California campaign disclosures show that Google, which has had issues from privacy advocates and government regulators, made what appears to be the first political contributions to elected officials in the company's history.
Continue reading...Another huge medical data breach is mishandled
Friday, November 7, 2008
Both president-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain backed electronic medical records during their campaign. Computerizing patient data, which could increase efficiency and cut costs, is part of every major federal health reform...
Continue reading...Google Makes First California Candidate Contributions As Criticism Mounts – Updated 11/11/08
Friday, November 7, 2008
Santa Monica, CA -- California campaign disclosures show that Google, Inc [GOOG] – which is under fire from privacy advocates and government regulators – made what appears to be the first political contributions to California candidates in the company’s history.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Asks Google for More Privacy, While Firefox Adds ‘Porn Mode’
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
With Google adding a browser to its search engine, cloud applications, ad tracking and toolbar, it already knows more about you than even your mother could. But Consumer Watchdog thinks the Lords of the Web should still make it easier for people to have a bit more privacy...
Continue reading...Google Chrome Privacy Issues Prompts Plea To Google Execs
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Chief among the group's complaints is Google Suggest, a feature found in Chrome and other Google applications like Google Toolbar. In an effort to publicize what it claims are the privacy failings of Google...
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Exposes Google Privacy Problems & Calls For Attorneys General Investigation
Monday, November 3, 2008
Online Video Targets Google’s New “Chrome” Browser, Websites And Software Revealed SANTA MONICA, CA -- Consumer Watchdog has created a You Tube video showing how your computer could be having an unnoticed conversation about you with Google. The nonprofit group has called on Google’s founders and directors to adopt new privacy safeguards that allow for anonymous internet and software use. Watch the video here and read the letter to Google’s founders here.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
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