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L.A. City Council To Vote On Google E-mail Contract
Questions about cost, security and reliability remain, but the council is expected to decide Tuesday. After concerns were raised about how Google would secure sensitive data from law enforcement agencies, the company announced plans to finish work on a "government cloud," a separate set of servers with enhanced security, sometime next year. But completion of the government cloud is not a guarantee, said John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan consumer advocacy group that has been critical of the Google contract. "If you build it and vet it and test it, great, but don't commit to going onto it until it actually exists," he said.
Continue reading...L.A. Council committee signs off on Google email plan with caveats
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Los Angeles City Council's Information Technology and General Services (ITGS) Committee on Tuesday
Continue reading...Google Makes a Case That It Isn’t So Big
Monday, June 29, 2009
Eyes are rolling, especially in reaction to the idea that Google is a relatively small player in a giant market. “They describe where they are in a market under a kind of a fairy-tale spun gloss that doesn’t reflect their dominance of key sectors,” said Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy. “Google search is an absolute must-have for every marketer in the world.”
Continue reading...Growing White House Ties To Google Draw Protest
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Consumer Groups Object To Expected Selection Of Google Exec To Deputy CTO Post Andrew McLaughlin, Google's director of global public policy, is expected to be appointed U.S. deputy chief technology officer, reporting to federal CTO Aneesh Chopra. Both are new White House positions. Two groups, the Center for Digital Democracy and Consumer Watchdog, yesterday urged Obama not to appoint McLaughlin to the post. In a letter signed by Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy and and John Simpson, consumer advocate at Consumer Watchdog, the groups said that McLaughlin "has been a lobbyist for the biggest digital marketing company in the world, and we believe no special-interest connected person should assume a position of vital importance to the country's future."
Continue reading...Google’s Former Policy Exec Faces Objections To Appointment As Deputy CTO
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Two consumer groups object to Andrew McLaughlin's potential appointment, saying it would violate President Obama's ethics guidelines. Andrew McLaughlin is slated to become the new deputy CTO, under federal CTO Aneesh Chopra, according to a New York Times report citing two unnamed sources. Google has acknowledged McLaughlin's departure, but not his destination. The White House has not yet announced plans to appoint McLaughlin. Nonetheless, the Center for Digital Democracy and Consumer Watchdog on Wednesday asked President Obama in a letter not to complete the rumored pending appointment because doing so would violate the President's ethics guidelines.
Continue reading...Is Google Burning Its Brand?
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The recent incident involved a privacy group called Consumer Watchdog. The organization and Google have had a history of run-ins. Consumer Watchdog has been critical of Google in terms of privacy, and has been aggressive at times in publicly challenging the search giant, as can be seen in this video ironically documented on YouTube, which is owned by Google.
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.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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