Consumer Watchdog is not backing down from its bid of calling out Hyundai‘s MPG claims for their popular Elantra, and has now…
Dec 15, 2011The giant, bold-faced "40 MPG" greeted drivers on New York's Long Island Expressway for months. The Hyundai Elantra, proudly displaying its new…
Dec 13, 2011
Everyone knows health insurance costs are rising rapidly, but a new study mreveals just how heavy a toll that takes on businesses,…
Dec 11, 2011
Stores say it unfairly encourages shoppers to look at goods in person but buy online. Amazon.com Inc. and the nation's bricks-and-mortar retailers…
Dec 10, 2011Touted seven years ago as a way to develop "breakthrough cures" for an array of life-threatening ailments, California's $3 billion taxpayer-financed stem…
Dec 9, 2011Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., Sen. Al Franken D-Minn., and Consumer Watchdog are asking federal regulators to investigate whether mobile software firm Carrier…
Dec 5, 2011The software firm acknowledges that it collects a wide variety of smartphone usage data. 'But capturing keystrokes and [text] messages, email, audio…
Dec 3, 2011Faced with sluggish sales at home, American refineries are shipping gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products abroad in record amounts, turning the…
Dec 3, 2011Group asks for investigation of all involved parties Advocacy group Consumer Watchdog announced this afternoon that it has sent letters to the…
Dec 2, 2011Right when it looks like Hyundai can do no wrong, we have this: A consumer protection group is asking the United States…
Dec 2, 2011The software maker has turned mobile phones into spy phones, the consumer group says IDG News Service -- Consumer Watchdog has called…
Dec 2, 2011Carrier IQ's woes continue to multiply. The Mountain View, Calif., startup now faces four lawsuits over allegations that its cellphone software violates…
Dec 2, 2011On the record, and even off, auto manufacturers are usually fairly discreet about their competitors.
Dec 1, 2011A network monitoring application has privacy watchdogs up in arms after a security researcher claimed that the software is capable of recording…
Dec 1, 2011A consumer organization is going to bat for buyers of Hyundai Elantras who complain about the compact's gas mileage. Reacting to media…
Nov 30, 2011Privacy and technology groups generally applauded a wide-ranging settlement between Facebook and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over the social-networking site's privacy…
Nov 29, 2011Parkview's five is in tie for highest The number of critical medical errors in Indiana hospitals and surgery centers increased last year…
Nov 29, 2011