John M. Simpson is an American consumer rights advocate and former journalist. Since 2005, he has worked for Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan nonprofit public interest group, as the lead researcher on Inside Google, the group's effort to educate the public about Google's dominance over the internet and the need for greater online privacy.
SANTA MONICA, CA -- Consumer Watchdog today demanded that Google give straight answers about how it handles apps buyers’ personal information when…
Apr 24, 2013
Google apparently is ending an egregious privacy breach involving people who buy apps from its Google Play store using Google Wallet to…
Apr 23, 2013Consumer Watchdog Privacy Project Director John Simpson on whether employers have the right to monitor social media accounts.
Apr 23, 2013
SANTA MONICA, CA – Facebook continued its major effort to win friends in Washington, spending $2.45 million on lobbying efforts during the…
Apr 23, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – A coalition of six consumer and privacy public interest groups today praised Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W VA) and Sen.…
Apr 22, 2013
SANTA MONICA, CA—The California Department of Motor Vehicles must enact regulations that protect safety and privacy in new regulations it is drafting…
Apr 19, 2013
Google, the company that makes its money by assembling digital dossiers about its users and selling them to advertisers for the highest…
Apr 19, 2013
Details of Google's proposed settlement with the European Union to avoid antitrust charges have been leaking out of Brussels over the weekend.
Apr 15, 2013
Serial privacy violator Google may face fines in the millions of dollars in Europe as six countries Tuesday opened formal investigations into…
Apr 2, 2013
Google's privacy chief, Alma Whitten, is stepping down the Internet giant confirmed Monday. Since word of her departure came out on April…
Apr 1, 2013Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Policy Director, John Simpson, breaks down the various ways current and upcoming vehicle electronics are collecting and possibly selling…
Mar 27, 2013
Consumer Watchdog has filed a second complaint asking that the Federal Trade Commission act immediately against Google’s most recent privacy violation –…
Mar 25, 2013
Eleven Internet Companies are pressing European antitrust regulators to take strong action against Google so that the Internet giant's smaller rivals aren't…
Mar 22, 2013John Simpson of the Consumer Watchdog privacy project on the FTC's report on twitter disclosures.
Mar 14, 2013John Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog's privacy project, and Nick Thompson, editor of New Yorker Magazine Inc.'s Newyorker.com and a Bloomberg News…
Mar 12, 2013
SANTA MONICA, CA – The $7 million deal announced today ending a multi-state investigation of the Google Wi-Spy scandal does virtually nothing…
Mar 12, 2013
Reports were circulating in the tech press Friday that serial privacy violator Google is about to cut a deal with state attorneys…
Mar 9, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Consumer Watchdog today praised Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W VA) for introducing a Do-Not-Track bill, which would charge the Federal…
Feb 28, 2013