Facebook critics are hoping the company's initial public offering, announced on Wednesday, could provide them with allies in the form of the…
Feb 1, 2012The non-profit advocacy group Consumer Watchdog on Wednesday objected to the closed-door meeting scheduled Thursday at which Google executives will brief a…
Feb 1, 2012“Don’t be evil.”
Feb 1, 2012Facebook has earned poor marks from privacy advocates for years, but their occasional bursts of indignation haven't seemed to filter down to…
Jan 31, 2012A consumer group on Monday issued a study that shows ‘disparate treatment’ of low-to moderate-income families by auto insurers nationwide, and is…
Jan 30, 2012Decision eliminates big obstacle in class action over early cancellations. LOS ANGELES - A state court judge on Thursday denied attempts by…
Jan 27, 2012UPDATE, Jan. 27, 2012: Mercury Insurance provided this response to questions about its record. The 90-year-old billionaire chairman of Mercury Insurance just…
Jan 27, 2012Changes by Google and Facebook could give marketers access to even more of users' personal info Google and Facebook might have finally…
Jan 26, 2012Europe appears poised to enact strict new privacy regulations geared to protect consumer data, but the debate is far from over. Representatives…
Jan 26, 2012Some U.S. tech industry officials said Wednesday that they worry that the European Commission's proposed changes to its privacy rules could be…
Jan 25, 2012Google is changing its privacy policies around Google+, streamlining identity services and paring the terms of service. The move makes opting out…
Jan 25, 2012Google is making its privacy policies uniform across many of its services and tearing down the walls between them to allow for…
Jan 25, 2012New research finds people fork over $5,000 worth of personal information a year to Google in exchange for access to its “free…
Jan 25, 2012The EU Commission announced sweeping Internet privacy recommendations Wednesday, in the first step toward a single policy for Europe regulating the amount…
Jan 25, 2012An American consumer advocacy group, Consumer Watchdog, wrote to Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, on 24 January, to ask him to ban Google's…
Jan 25, 2012My husband and I own a small business and we’ve had individual Anthem Blue Cross policies for nearly 30 years now. In…
Jan 24, 2012(Updated 2/4/13) We just received a 15% premium increase notice from Blue Cross that brought premiums for our family of four--my husband…
Jan 24, 2012Google spent nearly as much as AT&T and Comcast on lobbying in Q4 2011, according to quarterly federal lobbying reports available last…
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