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Google-Verizon broadband proposal undermines Internet, Consumer Watchdog says
SANTA MONICA, CA -- Google and Verizon's new joint broadband proposal pays lip service to the idea of "net neutrality," but actually would completely undermine the open and free Internet we enjoy, Consumer Watchdog said today.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog asks FBI, DEA to explain use of Google Earth
Monday, August 9, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The FBI and DEA are now making extensive use of Google Earth, according to federal spending records. Consumer Watchdog is filing Freedom of Information Act requests with the agencies today to determine how the Internet giant’s digital mapping technology is being used for domestic surveillance, including whether it is used for racial profiling or other abuses of civil liberties.
Continue reading...Google, Verizon Offer Internet Proposal
Monday, August 9, 2010
Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog, however, said that while the new broadband proposal "pays lip service to the idea of net neutrality," it would actually "completely undermine the open and free Internet we enjoy." John M. Simpson, consumer advocate with the nonpartisan, nonprofit public interest group, said there are two main problems with the proposal.
Continue reading...Google-Verizon deal prompts protest petitions
Friday, August 6, 2010
Several progress groups like MoveOn.org and Color of Change have launched online petition campaigns aimed at persuading Google to stick with its earlier espoused principles on "net neutrality" and not cut a a deal with telecommunications giant Verizon that would undermine an open Internet.
Continue reading...Google Make Deal With Verizon That Could Undermine Net Neutrality
Friday, August 6, 2010
Digital rights advocacy groups took a cautious view of the deal. John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog said: "Apparently Google redefines principles to suit the business need of the moment... What Google and Verizon are trying to do is carve up the Internet behind closed doors for their own benefit." The deal comes after the Federal Communications Commission disbanded talks on net neutrality, saying that it had failed to create an agreement on a 'robust framework to preserve the openness and freedom of the internet'.
Continue reading...Watchers Fear Google Compromise on ‘Net Neutrality’
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog portrayed any compromise by Google on net neutrality as a betrayal. "Apparently Google redefines principles to suit the business need of the moment," said John Simpson, a consumer advocate with the group. "What Google and Verizon are trying to do is carve up the Internet behind closed doors for their own benefit."
Continue reading...Google betrays Internet principle to fatten bottom line, Consumer Watchdog Says
Thursday, August 5, 2010
SANTA MONICA, CA -- Google is compromising a long standing principle it claimed to support in an effort to boost profits as it backs away from a key premise of an open Internet — “net neutrality,” Consumer Watchdog said today.
Continue reading...Google’s ties to CIA point up need for transparency
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
The report in Wired last week about a high-tech firm funded jointly by Google and the CIA, Recorded Future, not only signaled a growing skepticism about the most popular Internet search engine. It also pointed up the dangers of the lack of transparency poses for Google.
Continue reading...Google Teams Up with CIA to Fund “Recorded Future” Startup Monitoring Websites, Blogs & Twitter Accounts
Friday, July 30, 2010
Investors at the CIA and Google are backing a company called "Recorded Future" that monitors tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts in real time in order to find patterns, events and relationships that may predict the future. The news comes amidst Google’s so-called "Wi-Spy" scandal, that refers to revelations that Google’s Street View cars operating in some thirty countries snooped on private Wi-Fi networks over the last three years.
Continue reading...Google WiFi Data Collection Questions Whether America Protects Privacy At All
Thursday, July 29, 2010
According to a new poll from Consumer Watchdog a major part of Americans are very concerned about the privacy issues arousing from Google’s Street View data collection. Much covered reports about Google’s gathering private information from users’ WiFi networks make US consumers doubt in the efficiency of privacy protection measures implemented today, they want better privacy protections put in place.
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Monday, August 9, 2010
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