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.
BRUSSELS – Consumer Watchdog, a U.S.-based consumer advocacy group, today called for the EU’s antitrust regulators to block Google’s acquisition of Motorola…
Jan 23, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC – Consumer Watchdog today called on President Obama to use the State of the Union message to endorse baseline privacy…
Jan 20, 2012
Facebook executives may finally be getting the message that they can't continue to ride rough shod over the privacy rights of the…
Dec 22, 2011
SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today called on Los Angeles officials to demand Google remove a deceptive video featuring Los Angeles…
Dec 15, 2011
Google's sad saga of missed deadlines and unfulfilled promises in attempting to provide the City of Los Angeles with a "cloud" based…
Dec 14, 2011
SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today warned the Chicago Board of Education to consider Google’s failures in implementing an email system…
Dec 6, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC – Consumer Watchdog today called for a federal investigation into the "Spyphone Scandal", in which software embedded in smartphones surreptitiously…
Dec 2, 2011
The Prestigious CQ Researcher has recently tackled the issue of Google's dominance, asking the question: "Is the online-search giant too powerful?" See…
Nov 23, 2011
SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today said executives of leading Internet companies Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! should face criminal charges for…
Nov 21, 2011
SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today called on Google to donate the tainted revenue it received from deceptive ads preying on…
Nov 16, 2011
The week began for me at meetings in the heart of geekdom in Silicon Valley and concluded with consumer and privacy advocates…
Nov 4, 2011
SANTA MONICA, CA – Google Apps can be dangerous, Consumer Watchdog warned today and the public interest group said Los Angeles has…
Oct 25, 2011
SANTA MONICA, CA - Google’s explanation for its soaring record spending on lobbying in Washington is disingenuous bafflegab, Consumer Watchdog said today.…
Oct 21, 2011
SANTA MONICA, CA – New documents obtained by Consumer Watchdog show that Google cannot meet the security requirements of the Los Angeles…
Oct 18, 2011
Remember the "Double Irish" and the "Dutch Sandwich?" Those are the nicknames for the schemes that Google uses to dodge about $1…
Oct 14, 2011