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Consumer advocacy group calls for Google to adopt an easy zero day data retention "opt out" provision One of the most controversial…
Dec 24, 2008The oracle of progressive opinion, the New York Times editorial page, articulated the core concept for new privacy protection in America: "Internet…
Dec 24, 2008SA detailed report issued by the Congressional Budget Office comparing health care reform options found that a plan to allow Americans to…
Dec 23, 2008“That's the big problem with COBRA,” says Flanagan. “And that's why we need health reform so badly. COBRA is good, in that…
Dec 23, 2008Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner rode to victory in 2006 partly on the effects of a TV ad ridiculing his opponent, Cruz Bustamante,…
Dec 23, 2008Today's report by Robert Pear in the New York Times, about about one of the 4,200 house parties on health care reform…
Dec 23, 2008California is a bellwether for the nation, for good and ill. Today it's for ill, in the most literal way. The state's…
Dec 23, 2008S.F. Institute Considers Its Options, May Sell Bonds Privately The global financial crisis may do what opponents of California’s $3 billion state-sponsored…
Dec 22, 2008Directors of California's stem cell agency are being asked Tuesday to approve a request for $420,000 so the International...
Dec 22, 2008This week Yahoo released a new policy on data retention. Under the policy, the number two search engine will anonymize its users…
Dec 19, 2008There's nothing insurance companies fear more than having to compete with a low-overhead public and nonprofit health care option--say, Medicare. They're in…
Dec 19, 2008A new public health insurance plan that competes directly with private insurers is essential to controlling health care costs and improving quality…
Dec 19, 2008SACRAMENTO, CA -- State Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is under fire from his predecessor and a consumer group for proposing regulation changes…
Dec 19, 2008John Simpson, a privacy advocate for the non-profit consumer rights group Consumer Watchdog, said no less than a zero retention policy will…
Dec 18, 2008Santa Monica, CA -- Internet giant Google must match new privacy measures announced by search rival Yahoo!, Consumer Watchdog said today, and…
Dec 17, 2008Outcry As Stem-Cell Agency Puts Chairman On The Payroll Some, such as John Simpson of the taxpayer's group Consumer Watchdog in Santa…
Dec 17, 2008But Some Say Not Enough Data Are Purged John Simpson, a consumer advocate with Consumer Watchdog, said in a statement, "If data…
Dec 17, 2008WASHINGTON, DC — President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Mary Shapiro, a veteran of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to lead and revitalize…
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