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America's largest health insurance and services conglomerate thinks a health reform bill is likely to pass. And it has a plan already…
Mar 18, 2010Outgoing Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour blasted Google and Facebook on Wednesday for insufficient concern about consumers' privacy. Harbour,...
Mar 17, 2010Many Germans have objected strenuously to Google's Street View service saying that it is an improper invasion of their privacy. Now there's…
Mar 17, 2010On top of that, the compromised agency's actions are subjected to a veto by a "systemic risk" council made up of the…
Mar 17, 2010Who says legislative procedure is dull? The final machinations leading to a health care vote have me by the throat: What arcane…
Mar 16, 2010Carmen Balber, Washington director for Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit education and advocacy group, also opposes some of the consumer provisions, but for…
Mar 16, 2010Californians should have no trouble figuring out how to vote on Proposition 17, the auto insurance measure. All they have to do…
Mar 16, 2010California voters are about to be bombarded by more than $50 million in political advertising designed to convince them to approve a…
Mar 16, 2010Google CEO Eric Schmidt's recent speech to the Abu Dhabi Media Summit offers a revealing glimpse...
Mar 16, 2010Critics see price-gouging as refinery capacity is cut; the industry says it's just business. Today's problem isn't so much high prices, which…
Mar 15, 2010A teachers union's effort to change wording in Prop. 14, which would allow open primaries, was largely rejected. Measures on car insurance…
Mar 13, 2010Consumer Watchdog argues Prop 17 also allows insurance companies to charge a severe penalty to customers who do not have a history…
Mar 12, 2010Workers at a Portland, Ore., steel mill soon will be able to pick a new type of insurance that offers free care…
Mar 11, 2010The latest round of exorbitant health insurance rate increases nationally has helped more and more people recognize what Consumer Watchdog has been…
Mar 11, 2010Despite the fact that the mobile advertising market is still young and fragmented, U.S. regulators apparently are concerned that Google's proposed acquisition…
Mar 11, 2010Antitrust regulators are reported by Bloomberg news service to be seeking sworn statements from Google's competitors and advertisers as they continue to…
Mar 11, 2010Consumer Watchdog's calls for tough and open health insurance rate regulation are being echoed and amplified. The latest instance is in Connecticut,…
Mar 11, 2010President Obama should include a provision freezing health insurance rates in the package of revisions Democrats are drafting for the Senate-passed health…
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