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California's Low-Cost Auto Insurance Program has been extended for five years! We sponsored the 1999 legislation that created the program, and this…
Sep 28, 2010Program 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, 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, 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, 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, 2010SANTA MONICA, CA -- The consumer group that recently launched a popular online animated satire of Google’s privacy problems embodied in an…
Sep 16, 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, 2010On Thursday, Consumer Watchdog complained about the ad rejection in an open letter published on its site, and a Google representative confirmed…
Sep 10, 2010SANTA MONICA, CA -- New comments by Google CEO Eric Schmidt in Berlin show the top executive of the Internet giant fails…
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