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Program Gives Lifeline In Tough Economy With No Taxpayer Cost Santa Monica, CA -- Governor Schwarzenegger has signed legislation, AB 1597 (authored…
Sep 27, 2010Google critic John M. Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog's Inside Google project, praised the crackdown, saying, "There is entirely too much of…
Sep 27, 2010This morning I ventured into the Tea Party's den at Fox National News to talk about our Times Square Superscreen advertisement, which…
Sep 24, 2010The insurance industry is going directly to the White House in its latest attempt to evade a key portion of the health…
Sep 23, 2010Jamie Court, who heads the California-based advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, says he's seen much worse. In California, he says, typically insurers would…
Sep 23, 2010It’s thedifference between the structure of Molina Healthcare and commercial health plans that has enabled Molina to make such statements about his…
Sep 23, 2010There’s a name that’s becoming as ubiquitous in dirty oil politics as Coke cans are in greasy spoons. And it’s pronounced like…
Sep 23, 2010How many people know about the Senate's procedural breakdown since Lady Gaga tried to weigh in on a gay rights issue, and…
Sep 22, 2010NEW YORK — A California consumer-advocacy group is hoping to rally the left before the November election with an ad on a…
Sep 22, 2010Amidst a surge in governmental requests for private user data, Google’s openness effort is lagging, as the release of Google's second transparency…
Sep 22, 2010In November of 2009, Hartford Insurance submitted an application for a 6.9% rate increase to the California Department of Insurance. Consumer Watchdog…
Sep 22, 2010When Californians angry about oil companies' attempt to repeal the state's greenhouse gas emission cap went to confront the oil refiner behind…
Sep 22, 2010I was at Google's DC headquarters yesterday afternoon for the first event of AdWeek 2010 - the advertising industry's annual conference in…
Sep 21, 2010The initial apoplectic furor from opponents of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection at President Obama's appointment of Elizabeth Warren as a…
Sep 21, 2010Google Instant is not for me. When I search, I don’t want Google to know where I am or what I like…
Sep 20, 2010And all this "mad" talk isn't confined to the right side of the political arena. Liberal commentator Jamie Court is "mad as…
Sep 19, 2010In the same vein as the popular Do Not Call list, privacy advocates would like a Do Not Track that would allow…
Sep 17, 2010This video tells the moving story of how one woman took on the junk health insurance industry with the power of her…
Sep 16, 2010