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 -- Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee in September the committee…
Jul 8, 2011
SANTA MONICA, CA – Facebook has revised terms for game developers using its “virtual money,” Facebook Credits, changing one blatant anticompetitive provision…
Jul 6, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC -- Consumer Watchdog has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission charging that a virtual currency system called “Facebook…
Jun 29, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC -- Consumer Watchdog has asked the White House Counsel to rule that President Obama and other members of the Administration…
Jun 24, 2011
Since April when Bloomberg News reported that the Federal Trade Commission was contemplating a full-blown antitrust investigation of Google, people who follow…
Jun 23, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC -- The refusal of Google's top executives, CEO Larry Page and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt to testify at a hearing…
Jun 22, 2011If you follow a company closely, like I follow Google, there is no better place to remind its executives of your continued…
Jun 4, 2011I've just seen what has to be the lamest excuse ever to come out of the Googleplex. Apparently Google hasn't implemented a…
May 24, 2011
Politico Thursday described a turf battle between two powerful Senate Committees over privacy -- both have had hearings on smartphones and the…
May 19, 2011
The forty-state probe by attorneys general slowed after then Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal was elected to the U.S. Senate, but he…
May 19, 2011Nobody can doubt the pervasive influence Google has in our daily lives. For most people the Internet giant has become the primary…
May 8, 2011
SACRAMENTO, CA – For the first time in American history a privacy proposal to give people the right to stop collection of…
May 4, 2011
SANTA MONICA, CA – New details of how tech giants Google and Apple spy on users of their smartphones demonstrate the need…
Apr 22, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC – As average Americans focus today on their income tax bill, Consumer Watchdog called on President Obama and the chairmen…
Apr 15, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC — Consumer Watchdog today asked the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee to investigate Google’s misrepresentations about its “cloud computing”…
Apr 14, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A coalition of consumer groups and privacy advocates welcomed the bipartisan effort by Senators John Kerry and John McCain…
Apr 12, 2011
SANTA MONICA, CA — Consumer Watchdog today called on the federal government to suspend any contracts with Google to provide so-called “cloud…
Apr 11, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Department of Justice’s conditions on Google’s $700 million deal to buy ITA Software will focus unprecedented and necessary…
Apr 8, 2011