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One Privacy Policy To Rule Them All: What Google’s Controversial New Terms of Service Could Mean To You

By Christian Blauvelt , ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY POPWATCH BLOG

1. February 2012

Consumer Watchdog’s John Simpson points out that personalized advertisements targeted directly to a specific user, based on user-collected information, can be “a substantial amount” more lucrative than just an anonymous ad. And with all the information Google can collect about your interests from your searches, your Google Docs, and your favorite YouTube videos, they can figure out pretty specifically what ads they should show you. “They are positioning this as streamlining privacy,” Simpson says. “But that’s just PR. It’s all about better targeting for advertisers.”

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Web founder chides Google on net neutrality

Posted by Jefferson Morley

8. December 2010

“The World Wide Web is in danger,” says Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist who invented the ubiquitous http://www protocol—and part of the threat comes from Mountain View. “Some of [the Web’s] most successful inhabitants have begun to chip away at its principles,” he writes in a piece entitled “Long Live the Web” appearing in the most recent issue of Scientific American.

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Is new tablet computer tied to Google-Verizon deal?

Posted by Margot Williams

19. August 2010

When Google and Verizon (G-V) announced their “joint policy framework” on net neutrality, the search giant denied its new position had been shaped by its alliance with the telecom giant.

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Four House members blast Google-Verizon plan; call on FCC to act

Posted by John M. Simpson

16. August 2010

Four members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, on Monday called the Google-Verizon joint net neutrality plan too “industry-centered” and called on the Federal Communications Commission to regulate broadband.

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Did Google-Verizon deal scuttle a better Web plan?

Posted by Margot Williams

16. August 2010

The New York Times reported Monday that Google and Verizon reached their agreement on managing the Internet just as the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to forge “a stronger agreement” were close to succeeding.

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Google’s net neutrality case fails to convince

Posted by Margot Williams

13. August 2010

As protests against Google’s changing position on net neutrality mount online (here, here and here) and at the company’s Mountain View campus, it’s worth parsing the search giant’s official response.

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Santa Monica Consumer Group Alleges Google-Verizon Internet Plan Could Hinder Universal Internet Access

By Dennis Romero , L.A. WEEKLY TECH BLOG

11. August 2010

A Santa Monica-based consumer watchdog group this week decried a proposal by Google and Verizon Communications that it says would put an end to net neutrality and create a system of pay-to-play haves and have-nots when it comes to internet access.

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Google Proposes Separate Rules for Wireless Web

By Amy Thomson , BLOOMBERG NEWS

10. August 2010

Verizon Communications Inc. and Google Inc. urged U.S. regulators to leave wireless Internet services outside most policies that are designed to prevent carriers from making some websites perform better than others. Consumer Watchdog, a consumer group based in Santa Monica, said the proposal “completely undermines the future of the Internet” because the wireless use of the Web is gaining in popularity.

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Google-Verizon call for Congressional ban on Net Neutrality for mobile devices

By Byron Acohido , THE LAST WATCHDOG.COM

10. August 2010

John Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog, concurs. He says the Google-Verizon proposal “pays lip service” to Net Neutrality and contains two fundamental flaws.

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Anger Greets Google-Verizon Plan for Routing Web Traffic

By Byron Acohido , USA TODAY

10. August 2010

“Ultimately, consumers would pay the costs for the premium delivery, or worse, would never see the content of smaller companies,” says John Simpson, director of advocacy group Consumer Watchdog. “Google claims it won’t use premium channels for delivery, but not long ago they professed to defend true net neutrality.”

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