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Two Agencies Favor Do Not Track Option to Protect Web User Privacy
Weitzner spoke at a conference on the future of online consumer protections that the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog hosted. Marketers have created a lucrative business by collecting detailed data on Internet users' behaviors and backgrounds, including estimates of income and family composition, to compile consumer profiles for corporate clients. Do Not Track "is the perfect illustration for a robust stakeholder process to develop voluntary but enforceable codes of conduct," Weitzner added.
Continue reading...Microsoft’s Old Nemesis, Gary Reback, to Address Antitrust Probe of Google
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Last April, Consumer Watchdog published this report, titled Traffic Report: How Google Is Squeezing Out Competitors and Muscling Into New Markets. The group formally asked the Justice Department to launch an antitrust probe of the search giant. But the European Commission beat their U.S. counterparts to the punch. "I welcome the European action, but Google is a U.S. Company and it's long past time for our authorities to launch an investigation," says Consumer Watchdog spokesman John Simpson.
Continue reading...Google gets blurred in Germany
Friday, November 19, 2010
There are fears, oft-discounted but still harbored by at least one Israeli intelligence official, that terrorists might use Google Street View to plan terrorist attacks. If so, Google’s offices in Munich are safer today, because they are blurred in Google Street View, according to CNET’s Technically Incorrect.
Continue reading...FBI at the backdoor to the Internet
Friday, November 19, 2010
The Obama administration is advancing plans for strengthening the federal government’s ability to monitor the Internet.
Continue reading...Consumer Group Demands Hearing On Google ‘Wi-Spy’
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Ardent Google critic Consumer Watchdog has called on Congress to hold hearings on a major privacy breach by the Internet search engine giant, and insists that CEO Eric Schmidt should come to Washington to testify.
Continue reading...Group Claims Contradiction In Google Official’s Testimony
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Consumer Watchdog, one of Google's most persistent critics called on the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday to hold a hearing into the firm's Wi-Fi data collection controversy, citing a discrepancy in a Google official's testimony on the matter during a Senate hearing in June.
Continue reading...FCC Picks Up Where FTC Left Off In Google Wi-Spy Case
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Two weeks after the Federal Trade Commission closed its investigation of online search giant Google's Street View mapping project without taking action, another government agency is picking up where the FTC left off. Meanwhile, Consumer Watchdog on Thursday requested a congressional investigation and testimony under oath from Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Alma Whitten, the company's director of privacy for engineering and product management.
Continue reading...Google employee’s misleading testimony prompts Consumer Watchdog to call for Wi-Spy hearing
Thursday, November 11, 2010
CEO Schmidt Should Go To Washington Under Oath SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today asked the House Energy and Commerce Committee to hold hearings into Google’s Wi-Spying because a ranking employee of the Internet giant gave testimony that contradicted known facts about the company’s massive privacy invasion.
Continue reading...Privacy Advocates Blast FTC’s Inaction Over Street View Spying
Thursday, October 28, 2010
"The White House deputy chief technology officer, Andrew McLaughlin, was formerly Google's head of government affairs, and [Google CEO] Eric Schmidt was on a panel of economic advisors for President Obama's transition team," John Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog's Inside Google project, told the E-Commerce Times. "If you asked me if I was surprised that that type of clout and influence could pay off for Google in this case, I would say 'no,'" Simpson continued. "Do I have proof that it did? Again, I would have to say 'no.'"
Continue reading...Critics Call For Congressional Hearings On Google’s Wi-Fi Data Harvesting
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Leading the call for Congressional oversight is John M. Simpson, managing director of the non-profit advocacy group Consumer Watchdog. Simpson calls this two-page letter the FTC sent to Google on Wednesday "premature and wrong. "
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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