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When the online advertising industry recently issued seven principles to protect consumer privacy, you could see the lines being drawn. John Simpson,…
Jul 28, 2009The "New Dems" are far greedier and more troubling players than the small cadre of southern and rural Blue Dog Democrats. Of…
Jul 28, 2009Concerns are the same as with any outsourcing, remote data access, IT managers say. Consumer Watchdog group said the Twitter incident raises…
Jul 27, 2009State officials who lead California's war on global warming often travel abroad on trips supported by the major greenhouse gas polluters they…
Jul 26, 2009Earlier this month the Network Advertising Initiative (NIA), a trade association that includes some of the biggest online advertising companies like Google,…
Jul 24, 2009Much of the focus on the proposed Google Books settlement has been on antitrust concerns....
Jul 23, 2009When President Obama talked last night about the absolute need for a publicly run health care option for Americans, a competitor to…
Jul 23, 2009Polls show most Americans don’t like the current system (56 percent want “major health care reform” this year, 62 percent want more…
Jul 23, 2009What do you do if you're a gargantuan Internet company that's come under increased scrutiny, despite your "Don't-be-evil" mantra? Send in the...
Jul 23, 2009Consumer Watchdog said the proposal would undo a current California law prohibiting insurance companies from pushing, or "steering," customers to auto body…
Jul 23, 2009Consideration of a proposal to move the City of Los Angles' email and other computer applications to a system run by...
Jul 22, 2009"We're digging through them now. We support a bill that has a true public option, and the House bill has that," said…
Jul 22, 2009Jerry Flanagan, a health-care analyst with Consumer Watchdog, a California-based advocacy group, said the tide of campaign contributions amounts to "a huge…
Jul 21, 2009WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Healthcare industry lobbyists have showered the Democratic U.S. senator leading reform efforts with $1.5 million in donations, records indicate.…
Jul 21, 2009Senator Max Baucus, A Leading Architect of Health Care Reform, Received More Industry Contributions Than Any Other Congressional Candidate WASHINGTON, DC --…
Jul 21, 2009JERRY FLANAGAN, DIRECTOR OF HEALTH CARE POLICY, CONSUMER WATCHDOG: You know, look, members of Congress are never going to admit they're influenced…
Jul 21, 2009Jerry Flanagan of with Consumer Watchdog said with the insurance companies, "What they've been doing is selling to everybody, then waiting until…
Jul 20, 2009San Francisco, CA -- A Bay Area man and his thirteen-year-old son urged California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner to protect innocent patients…
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