Has Google Jumped the Shark?
Milo Yiannopoulos Wonders if the Company's Glory Days Are Ancient History Google has admitted to “accidentally” retrieving and storing masses of personal…
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Milo Yiannopoulos Wonders if the Company's Glory Days Are Ancient History Google has admitted to “accidentally” retrieving and storing masses of personal…
Aug 6, 2010The California-based nonprofit Consumer Watchdog made that point in a letter sent Tuesday to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urging her to reject…
Aug 6, 2010SAN FRANCISCO — Online freedom advocates fear that Google is changing allegiance in the battle to stop Internet service providers from giving…
Aug 5, 2010SANTA MONICA, CA — Google is compromising a long standing principle it claimed to support in an effort to boost profits as…
Aug 5, 2010For years, Mercury Insurance illegally overcharged hundreds of thousands of California drivers hundreds of dollars per year, until they were forced to…
Aug 4, 2010Carmen Balber, director of the Washington office for Consumer Watchdog, an insurance industry critic that has been keeping close tabs on the…
Aug 3, 2010$1 Million Grant Would Bolster Industry-favored Schwarzenegger Plan, Help Kill Actual Regulation of Insurance Companies Washington, DC -- Consumer Watchdog today asked…
Aug 3, 2010Investors at the CIA and Google are backing a company called "Recorded Future" that monitors tens of thousands of websites, blogs and…
Jul 30, 2010As an Aug. 31 deadline nears, state lawmakers haggle over how difficult it should be for companies to significantly raise premiums. Consumer…
Jul 30, 2010If Californians Have to Buy Health Insurance, Insurers Have to Be Regulated, Says Watchdog’s Letter to Gov. Santa Monica, CA -- Consumer…
Jul 30, 2010Despite years of concern about crowded emergency rooms, many California hospitals have embarked on aggressively courting patients to their ERs – a…
Jul 29, 2010According to a new poll from Consumer Watchdog a major part of Americans are very concerned about the privacy issues arousing from…
Jul 29, 2010Can insurance company lobbying of federal health regulation be turned into a gripping spy thriller? OK, no. But this is as close…
Jul 28, 2010Web consumers are concerned about Google's collection of data over wireless networks, but still give the search engine and Web services provider…
Jul 28, 2010The three-hour hearing on Online Consumer Privacy has just come to a close, but unfortunately nothing substantive has emerged. Senators asked the…
Jul 27, 2010Google Privacy Engineering Lead Dr. Alma Whitten told the Committee that the company was "conducting investigations" into why its Street View cars…
Jul 27, 2010Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz endorsed an opt-in framework for privacy policies on the internet over an opt-out one in response…
Jul 27, 2010Americans Favor Broad Range Of Online Privacy Protections for Consumers SANTA MONICA, CA -- A significant majority of Americans are troubled by…
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