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Google violated Canadian privacy laws when its Street View cars gathered data from private wireless networks, Canada's privacy commissioner said on Tuesday....
Oct 19, 2010SANTA MONICA, CA -- The Canadian Privacy Commissioner’s announcement today that Google’s Wi-Spying with its Street View cars broke the law demonstrates…
Oct 19, 2010In years past, a profit result like United HealthCare's 26% increase in the third quarter would spike the stock price. Not so…
Oct 19, 2010$2.655 Million To Date To Sacramento Political Committee That Doesn't Disclose Industry Funding In Ads Supporting Villines, Attacking Jones
Oct 19, 2010The following op-ed commentary was published in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, October 19, 2010. Obama should forbid premium hikes until…
Oct 19, 2010The CEA said users need to more aware of what they reveal online Companies that want to make use of the…
Oct 19, 2010Consumer Group Calls On Pension Funds to Divest From Prop 23 Backers Tesoro, Valero
Oct 18, 2010Academy Award-winning director James Cameron – whose movies have featured Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger – on Friday pledged $1 million to oppose Proposition…
Oct 16, 2010The insurance industry has given more than $1.5 million in indirect contributions to support the Republican candidate for state insurance commissioner, raising…
Oct 16, 2010Consumer Watchdog has called on California's two large public employee pension funds -- CalPERS and CalSTRS -- to sell off their holdings…
Oct 15, 2010Struggling to find the definition for a word? Simply type "define: XXXX", where XXXX is the word you're asking about, into Google's…
Oct 15, 2010Death and taxes may be inevitable in life, but in politics what's inevitable is that you will have to face public opinion…
Oct 15, 2010Big Oil has flooded campuses with millions of dollars to pay for clean energy research at American universities, undermining tradition academic values…
Oct 14, 2010Few statewide political jobs in California are more important – or more poorly understood – than that of state Insurance Commissioner. The…
Oct 14, 2010With less than three weeks until election day, the leaders of three major consumer organizations have endorsed Jones. Harvey Rosenfield, author of…
Oct 14, 2010If you walk through the heart of Times Square today and look up at the 520 sq. ft. CBS superscreen on 42nd…
Oct 13, 2010$1.2 Million In Insurance Industry Donations In Past Two Weeks to Chamber PAC Running Ads Against Dave Jones Santa Monica, CA –…
Oct 13, 2010How does the health insurance industry think it can act like rules requiring them to spend more consumer premiums on health care,…
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