Press Release
Google increased its lobbying spending in the first quarter by a whopping 57 percent over the previous year as it paid $1.3 million to influence lawmakers and regulators, according to public records filed today. “Google is relatively new to the influence-peddling game, but they’re now one of the highest rollers in Washington,” said John M. Simpson, consumer advocate with Consumer Watchdog.
News Clipping
Consumer Watchdog, the Santa Monica group that’s proving a perpetual thorn in the side of Google Inc., plans to call on the Justice Department to launch an antitrust action against the search giant and seek remedies including a possible break up.
News Clipping
A Santa Monica, Calif.-based consumer watchdog group called, er, “Consumer Watchdog” intends to ask the U.S. Justice Department tomorrow during a press conference to investigate and take antitrust action against Google. The action they’re calling for includes breaking up the company into “baby Googs.”
Blog Post
A video produced by Hungry Beast, a weekly news show on Australian television puts Internet giant …
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Many Germans have objected strenuously to Google’s Street View service saying that it is an improper invasion of their privacy.
Now there’s a delightful …
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Remember the ever-so-cute ad that Google ran during the Super Bowl? Now there’s a parody that shows some not-so-cute things you can do using Google’s…
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Census Day – April 1 – got me thinking about the data the Census Bureau compiles about me. Google’s partnership with the bureau got me thinking about who has the most data and who poses…
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You might call it poetic justice. Remember the more than justifiable flap that ensued when Google launched
its Buzz social networking service as part of Gmail? People quickly
saw that the people they most frequently emailed were displayed publicly
on their profile.
Blog Post
Google
continues to demonstrate that when comes to a commitment to openness and transparency the Internet
giant is really talking about holding others to that standard,
certainly not itself.
Blog Post
Sometime soon, my refrigerator could be spying on my late night ice cream binges. Right now it’s just a large frost-free appliance that doesn’t talk back. But when it starts to network on the Smart Grid via a meter and Google’s PowerMeter application, will Google be analyzing my high-cholesterol snacks?
