Evan Thomas King
Chief Technology Officer
Evan King is a designer and technologist with over two decades of experience building smart, clean, and effective digital systems. He’s worked across design, production, and IT—leading projects that push tech forward and keep things running beautifully behind the scenes.
Articles by Evan Thomas King
Privacy
SNL Jokes About CWD Report
Consumer Watchdog has been staying busy. Highlights of our work on privacy and technology
Dec 27, 2017
Energy
Consumer Watchdog, Anti-Trust Experts Warn of Higher Prices From Disney-Fox Merger
Consumers can expect to pay more for streaming subscriptions if regulators give the greenlight to the proposed $52.4-billion merger of Disney and…
Dec 15, 2017
Energy
Google Home, Amazon Echo usher in an Orwellian future, consumer group warns
Amazon and Google have been heavily promoting their digital “assistants,” Google Home and Amazon Echo as ideal holiday presents and time-savers for…
Dec 15, 2017
Energy
How Google and Amazon are ‘spying’ on you
You would be forgiven for thinking that your private conversations were just that, but two leading voice assistants are listening to everything…
Dec 15, 2017
Energy
Google and Amazon really DO want to spy on you: Patent reveals future versions of their voice assistants will record your conversations to sell you products
You would be forgiven for thinking that your private conversations were just that, but two leading voice assistants are listening to everything…
Dec 15, 2017
Energy
Driverless cars won’t need backup drivers in California next year
A white Toyota Highlander rigged with cameras and sensors winds through San Francisco’s Financial District. It eases into an intersection, checks for pedestrians…
Dec 15, 2017
Video
Net Neutrality Repeal Gives Telecoms Control Over Internet, Says Consumer Watchdog
Jamie Court, President of Consumer Watchdog, sits down with KTTV to talk about the FCC’s repeal of Net Neutrality regulations, and how…
Dec 15, 2017
Privacy
Consumer Watchdog Reveals Surveillance Capabilities of Digital Assistants
Consumer Watchdog warns consumers not to let Amazon and Google into your home. Patent applications reveal plans to record confidential conversations for…
Dec 14, 2017
Video
‘Orwellian’ Digital Assistants Spy on Their Owners, Sell Data Says Consumer Watchdog
John Simpson, of Consumer Watchdog, warns consumers that Digital Assistants spy on their owners, record everything from conversations to toilet flushes in…
Dec 14, 2017
Video
Patent Applications Reveal the Surveillance of Amazon and Google Digital Assistants
Jamie Court sits down with KCBS to warn consumers: Don’t trust Google and Amazon’s digital assistants as they spy on people in…
Dec 1, 2017
Privacy
Consumer Watchdog Warns Amazon Echo and Google Home Are Tools of Mass Surveillance
John Simpson, Privacy Project Director of Consumer Watchdog, warns consumers not to trust Google Home or Alexa, as they spy on users…
Dec 1, 2017
Video
How you can avoid scams on Giving Tuesday
Jamie Court of Consumer Watchdog warns consumers of “Giving Tuesday” Scams
Nov 29, 2017