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The controversy surrounding Google's street view car's practice of collecting personal data off open broadband wireless networks just got more controversial. Turns…
Jul 16, 2010Obama Plans to Sign Measure; GOP Leader Vows Repeal Try Both banking groups and their consumer and labor adversaries vowed to keep…
Jul 16, 2010Washington, D.C. – Consumer Watchdog applauded final Congressional passage today of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which now heads…
Jul 15, 2010This man is Andrew McLaughlin. A former Googler–he was their Head of Public Policy–he’s been hired by the Obama...
Jul 13, 2010Consumer Watchdog's Inside Google, an investigative branch of Watchdog, has completed an investigation on the data collection practices of Google. It appears…
Jul 13, 2010Carmen Balber, director of the Washington office for Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group that has been highly critical of the insurance industry…
Jul 12, 2010SUNDAY PROFILE: Rose Ann DeMoro Harvey Rosenfield, founder of Consumer Watchdog in Santa Monica, warned that DeMoro "has no fear. She is…
Jul 11, 2010Without directly revealing their involvement, major industries and organizations play key roles in legislative contests. Voters may not have been aware that…
Jul 11, 2010Watchdog: US Congresspeople Were Slurped (Maybe) In an effort to spur a Congressional investigation in the States, the consumer watchdog known as…
Jul 10, 2010We’re not sure what’s more humorous: That California Rep. Jane Harman, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, maintains two unencrypted…
Jul 9, 2010Consumer Watchdog accuses Google of breaching the home WiFi networks of prominent lawmakers as part of its Google Street View snafu. To…
Jul 9, 2010Comcast is boosting the price of cable TV and Internet service in Marin County and the rest of Northern California, where 2.3…
Jul 9, 2010Google WiSpy Practices Could Have Collected Data About National Security
Jul 9, 2010Google has removed any equipment used to collect WiFi data in its Street View cars, which have resumed their tours of Sweden,…
Jul 9, 2010Consumer Watchdog finds unprotected network at U.S. Rep.’s home that appears on Google Street View Consumer Watchdog, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based advocacy…
Jul 9, 2010Google’s popular Street View project may have collected personal information of members of Congress, including some involved in national security issues. The…
Jul 9, 2010A Colorado woman who's in the middle of intensive chemotherapy for leukemia gets laid off. Bad enough, but at least she can…
Jul 8, 2010Consumer Watchdog said it was not surprised that Europe was driving this latest legal action against Facebook. "There are much stronger privacy…
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