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Amidst 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, 2010It’s amazing how oil companies stay so completely on message. The American Petroleum Institute, the oil industry mouthpiece, is pushing the same…
Sep 16, 2010Did you ever find yourself a little overbooked, wondering how you can be at two or three places at once? Well, that’s…
Sep 16, 2010SANTA MONICA, CA -- The consumer group that recently launched a popular online animated satire of Google’s privacy problems embodied in an…
Sep 16, 2010The Tea Party is on a roll with its upset Senate primary victory in Delaware. If the rest of us don't start…
Sep 15, 2010The way natural gas promoters talk about their pet fuel, you’d think it was green as clover and safe as baby oil.…
Sep 15, 2010California-based Consumer Watchdog wrote to President Obama on Tuesday urging him to use the powers of his office to get tough on…
Sep 14, 2010SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today invited Google to participate in a conference, “Google, The Internet And The Future,” that the…
Sep 14, 2010Washington, DC – The California consumer group that pioneered the nation's toughest property casualty insurance regulation called on President Obama today to…
Sep 14, 2010Karen Ignagni, president of the health insurance industry's lobbying front AHIP, last week laid a portion of the the blame for a…
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