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Google Street View Controversy Continues to Roil
By Jeffrey Burt , eWEEK.COM
A consumer advocacy group wants all the documents connected with the FCC's investigation, while some European regulators may give the Google program a new look.
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Consumer Watchdog Files FOIA Request Seeking All Documents In FCC’s Investigation Of Google Wi-Spy Scandal
CONTACT: John M. Simpson , 310-392-0522 x317
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today filed a Freedom Of Information Act Request with the Federal Communications Commission seeking all documents related to the Commission’s investigation of the Google Wi-Spy scandal.
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Street View Engineer Warned Google in 2007
By Chris Burns , SLASHGEAR.COM
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
A letter written by John Simpson, privacy project director for the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog on the 30th of April spoke on this subject. It was addressed to Senator Al Franken, a proponent of getting Google to reveal what they’d actually collected here before, saying that wished Franken to grant Engineer Doe immunity from prosecution. If indeed the engineer at hand were granted immunity, he would be much more likely to testify in the case which was, as Simpson claims, “the largest wiretapping effort in history.” Simpson wanted Franken and the rest of the world to know the dangers in this situation.
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Consumer Watchdog Calls For Senate Hearing on Google Wi-Spy Scandal
CONTACT: John M. Simpson , 310-392-0522, x317
Monday, April 30, 2012
Urges ‘Engineer Doe’ Be Given Immunity For Testifying About His Role SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today called for a Senate hearing into the Google Wi-Spy scandal and urged that a key figure known in a Federal Communications Commission report as “Engineer Doe” be granted immunity from prosecution in return for his testimony.
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Google Spends More On One Day of Lunch Than It Will On FCC Fine
By Sarah Kessler , MASHABLE.COM
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
According to a report by ProPublica, the FCC legally could have fined Google up to $337,500. Mashable has contacted the FCC for comment on how the fees were calculated and will update this article with any response.
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Consumer Groups Slate Google’s Tiny Wi-Spy Fine
By Jeffrey Burt , eWEEK.COM
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
John Simpson, director of the Privacy Project at the Consumer Watchdog group, said he was pleased the FCC derided Google “for its blatantly obstructionist violations, but $25,000 is chump change to an Internet giant like Google. By willfully violating the Commission’s orders, Google has managed to continue to hide the truth about Wi-Spy. Google wants everyone else’s information to be accessible, but in a demonstration of remarkable hypocrisy, stonewalls and keeps everything about itself secret.”
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Sergey Brin Pounds Fists Against Walled Gardens
By Richard Adhikari , TECHNEWSWORLD.COM
Monday, April 16, 2012
"Whenever Google raises the cry of defending Internet freedom, it's always really about what's best for Google's business model," John Simpson, consumer advocate at Consumer Watchdog, told TechNewsWorld.
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Consumer Watchdog Demands FCC Release Uncensored Google Wi-Spy Decision, Decries Internet Giant’s Hypocrisy For Deliberately Obstructing Investigation
CONTACT: John M. Simpson , 310-392-0522 x317
Monday, April 16, 2012
SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today demanded that the Federal Communications Commission release an uncensored version of its highly redacted decision to fine Google $25,000 for deliberately impeding and delaying its investigation of the Wi-Spy scandal.
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Franken, Consumer Groups Urge Obama to Push for New Online Privacy Rules
By Brendan Sasso , HILLICON VALLEY BLOG - THEHILL.COM
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Consumer Watchdog urged the Commerce Department to propose its own privacy legislation and push Congress to pass it. "Calls for action in policy papers are easy. The test of commitment is to translate high-minded principles like the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights into real legislative language," the group wrote. It urged the Commerce Department to propose the legislation before moving forward with negotiations with Web companies.
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‘Girls Around Me’ Shows a Dark Side of Social Networks
By Cameron Scott , PCWORLD.COM
Monday, April 2, 2012
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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Consumer Watchdog Applauds FTC, EU Investigations of Google’s Violation of Apple Users’ Privacy
CONTACT: Carmen Balber , 310-392-0522 x308; or Jamie Court, x327
Friday, March 16, 2012
Says FTC Action Needed to Stop Google Engineers Playing ‘Fast and Loose’ With Consumers’ Private Information Santa Monica, CA – Consumer Watchdog welcomed reports today confirming that the Federal Trade Commission and European regulators are investigating Google for violating the online privacy choices of consumers using the Safari web browser on Apple computers, iPhones and iPads. In a letter last month, Consumer Watchdog said that Google was lying to consumers and called on the FTC to act.
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Google Privacy Policy Strikes Out With EU, Others
By Pete Barlas , INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Thursday, March 1, 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
Thursday, March 1, 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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