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U.S. Appeals Court Rules Google Not Exempt From Wiretap Law In Wi-Spy Suit
Billions of Dollars At Stake For Google’s Collection Of Data With Street View Cars SANTA MONICA, CA – A federal appeals court ruled today that Google’s interception of messages from private Wi-Fi networks is not exempt from federal wiretap laws, opening the way for a class action suit in the Wi-Spy case to move forward with possible damages amounting to billions of dollars.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Urges European Commission To Charge Google In Antitrust Probe
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Latest Settlement Proposal from Internet Giant Is “An Attempt To Obfuscate And Delay” SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today called on the European Commission to file a formal Statement of Objections against Google in the nearly three-year-old antitrust investigation of the Internet giant and said Google’s latest settlement offer was an attempt to stall the investigation.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Joins EPIC In Opposing $8.5 Million Settlement In Google Suit
Thursday, August 22, 2013
SANTA MONICA, CA. – Consumer Watchdog joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and three other public interest groups today in opposing a proposed $8.5 million settlement in a class action suit against Google for privacy violations in the way it handled users’ search data because of at least “three obvious deficiencies” in the proposal.
Continue reading...Google Is Either Lying To The Court Or To The Public, Consumer Watchdog Says
Thursday, August 15, 2013
SANTA MONICA, CA – Google is either lying to the court or lying to the public, Consumer Watchdog said today, after the Internet giant made new public claims asserting it respects users’ privacy that contradicted an earlier court filing it made. Google said in a court filing that there was no legitimate expectation of privacy when emails were sent to its system.
Continue reading...Google Tells Court You Cannot Expect Privacy When Sending Messages to Gmail — People Who Care About Privacy Should Not Use Service, Consumer Watchdog Says
Monday, August 12, 2013
SANTA MONICA, CA -- In a stunning admission contained in a brief filed recently in federal court, lawyers for Google said people should not expect privacy when they send messages to a Gmail account. Consumer Watchdog said today that people who care about their email correspondents’ privacy should not use the Internet giant’s service.
Continue reading...Google Centers Privacy Policies Around Google+
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
This privacy practice changes will likely also provoke protests from the Electronic Information Privacy Center, which is currently opposing Search, plus your world, as well as the Consumer Watchdog agency.
Continue reading...Experts Positive on Facebook’s New Privacy Controls
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Privacy advocates and security experts have given Facebook a preliminary thumbs-up on the upcoming changes designed to improve privacy controls on its site.
Continue reading...Schmidt Out Of Google’s CEO Office, But Is Privacy In?
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be leaving the CEO's office and founder Larry Page will be stepping in. The question is whether this is a signal from the Internet Goliath that Schmidt's missteps and misstatements about online privacy are no longer company policy.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013
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