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L.A. Council committee signs off on Google email plan with caveats

John M. Simpson

The Los Angeles City Council’s Information Technology and General Services (ITGS) Committee on Tuesday Continue reading...

Tough questions needed on Google email plan for L.A.

John M. Simpson

A Los Angeles City Council committee on Tuesday takes up a …

L.A. Council committee meeting on Google plan postponed again

John M. Simpson

A proposal to switch Los Angeles city government’s email and some other computer applications to a "…

Grad student sparks online advertising reforms

John M. Simpson

A week ago I wrote about how a graduate student, Chris Soghoian, had exposed the online industry-touted…

Online behavioral advertising opt-out procedures misleading

John M. Simpson

Earlier this month  the Network Advertising Initiative (NIA), a trade association that includes some of the biggest online advertising companies like Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft…

Press Release

Warning issued on Google Books privacy threat

CONTACT: John M. Simpson

Much of the focus on the proposed Google Books settlement has been on antitrust concerns….

Press Release

Heat is on Google, so it ups lobbying spending 30%

CONTACT: John M. Simpson

What do you do if you’re a gargantuan Internet company that’s come under increased scrutiny, despite your "Don’t-be-evil" mantra?  Send in the…

L.A. delays consideration of Google email plan

John M. Simpson

Consideration of a proposal to move the City of Los Angles’ email and other computer applications to a system run by…

L.A. needs assurances before moving to Google’s ‘cloud’

John M. Simpson

Frustrated by an out-of-date email system that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s spokesman Matt Szabo calls "Pac-Man-era technology" the City of Los Angeles is considering entrusting…

Google snips ‘confidential’ label from lobbying doc after criticism

Judy Dugan

Google probably thought it was being subtle and sly. Just after
Consumer Watchdog obtained and released Google’s new "confidential"
lobbying document, Google posted the same document, stripped of its "confidential" and "proprietary" labels, as an example of its public transparency.