How Google and Amazon are ‘spying’ on you
You would be forgiven for thinking that your private conversations were just that, but two leading voice assistants are listening to everything you say, a...
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Google and Amazon really DO want to spy on you: Patent reveals future versions of their voice assistants will record your conversations to sell you products
You would be forgiven for thinking that your private conversations were just that, but two leading voice assistants are listening to everything you say, a...
Driverless cars won’t need backup drivers in California next year
A white Toyota Highlander rigged with cameras and sensors winds through San Francisco’s Financial District. It eases into an intersection, checks for pedestrians and allows oncoming...
Gov. Brown Should Stop Protecting the Oil Industry
Governor Jerry Brown sells himself as one of the world’s foremost climate change warriors. But as long as he protects the oil industry, California will...
DWP Rubberstamps $242 Million Tuesday Takeaway from Ratepayers In Violation Of Their Rights
Santa Monica, CA — Today’s vote by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners for LADWP to transfer $242 million in ratepayer money to the...
Consumer Watchdog Decries LADWP Transfer Of $242 Million From Ratepayers To City Budget Without Voter Approval
Santa Monica, CA — The Board of Water and Power Commissioners for LADWP has put on its agenda a Tuesday vote to transfer nearly $242...
Keystone Leak Shows Trump Is Keystone Cop For Heartland
When President Trump moved to expand the Keystone pipeline to the Gulf, we warned him that it wasn’t just a risk to the land, but the...
California may limit liability of self-driving carmakers
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California regulators are embracing a General Motors recommendation that would help makers of self-driving cars avoid paying for accidents and other...
CA Cap-And-Trade Program Isn’t Working
Santa Monica, CA — As protestors heckled Governor Jerry Brown during his tour abroad for failing to leave oil and gas in the ground, new...
Germany Could Teach Jerry Brown How To Be Greener, Consumer Watchdog Says
Los Angeles, CA — As California’s Governor traverses the world urging it to wake up to climate change, California’s leading consumer group called on Brown...
AT&T Tops Q3 Lobbying Spend – Comcast’s spending Up, Charter’s Down
AT&T barely outspent Google to be the third quarter’s top telecom/tech spender on lobbying, shelling out $4.13 million, up 8% from Q3 2016, according to Consumer Watchdog’s...
Failure to adequately regulate utilities helped fuel CA wildfires
Originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle. Corruption can kill. The fires that laid waste to California’s Wine Country and at least 42 lives were...