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Online Advertisers Targeted in Privacy Moves

By Chris Nuttall , FINANCIAL TIMES TECH BLOG

3. May 2010

With behavioural targeting and privacy becoming hot internet issues, a coalition of consumer and privacy advocacy groups is taking their fight for online rights to Capitol Hill. The sizeable coalition – its members are Consumer Action, Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Consumer Watchdog, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy Lives, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Privacy Times, US Public Interest Research Group and the World Privacy Forum – says industry self-regulation has not provided meaningful consumer protection and legislation is needed.

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Congressmen question proposed AdMob deal

Posted by John M. Simpson

2. May 2010

Google’s controversial $750 million deal to buy mobile advertising company AdMob has raised more doubts, this time from Capitol Hill.

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Ohio AG backs antitrust suit against Google

Posted by John M. Simpson

30. April 2010

In yet another indication of the seriousness of the mounting antitrust concerns about Goolge, the Ohio Attorney General, Richard A. Cordray, has weighed in on the side of myTriggers, an internet search firm suing Google for unfair anticompetitive practices

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Gathering your WiFi data – Google’s business plan

Posted by Margot Williams

30. April 2010

Government data protection authorities in Germany and the UK are questioning the collection of information on individual WiFI networks by Google’s Street View cars traversing their local streets.

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Is history repeating itself with Google antitrust saga?

Posted by Glenn Simpson

29. April 2010

Is this how it begins?
A handful of small companies crushed by a technology giant file David v. Goliath unfair competition lawsuits. A leading Silicon Valley antitrust expert lends his legal brains to the seemingly hopeless cause. Soon, a company that thinks it is all powerful and can do no wrong is forced to face up to the reality that it does not play well with others.

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GSA for GSA

Posted by Margot Williams

27. April 2010

In a serendipitous synchronicity, the Google Search Appliance (GSA) has debuted as the new search engine on the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) web site.

Recently a box popped up on an obscure GSA web page titled “Transparency” which reveals that Google has taken over the search spot at the agency.

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Jennifer Stoddart Blazes a Global Trail for Privacy Protection

By Jacquie McNish , THE GLOBE AND MAIL, (Toronto, Canada)

27. April 2010

“She has taken the lead in sounding the privacy alarm,” said John Simpson, a consumer advocate with Consumer Watchdog in Santa Monica, Calif.

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Watchdog Calls for Google Break-Up; Urges DoJ to Investigate

By John Oates , THE REGISTER UK

23. April 2010

Consumer Watchdog said it welcomed the ongoing investigation into Google Books by the DoJ, and the Federal Trade Commission’s probe into the AdMob buy, but said it was: “past time to act against Google’s monopolistic and pervasive power over the entire Internet”.

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Watchdog Calls for Federal Inquiry into Google

By Seth Weintraub , BRAINSTORM TECH BLOG - FORTUNE

22. April 2010

Consumer Watchdog released its letter (PDF) to the Justice Department today at a news conference called “The Antitrust Case Against Google,” which was held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Other participants were Joseph Bial, special counsel at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, who represents myTriggers.com and TradeComet.com.; Simon Buckingham, a New York based Internet and mobile entrepreneur; and Gary Reback, an attorney with Carrell & Ferrell and a founder of the Open Book Alliance.

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Group Urges Google Breakup

By Wire Reports , THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

22. April 2010

Google’s treatment of rivals “warrants a full-blown investigation,” John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog said in Washington. Breaking up the company “should be on the table,” he said.

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