Privacy

Consumer Watchdog Asks Senator Kohl To Recall Google’s Schmidt As Witness

October 7, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> <img align="right" src="http://www.tech-progress.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/consumerwatchdog1.jpg" />Noting (as<a href="http://www.tech-progress.org/?p=1948"> I did on Monday</a>) that Schmidt had basically recanted his contrite testimony before Congress in basically calling the government slow and stupid in a Washington Post interview, Consumer Watchdog said in a <a href="https://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/resources_ltrschmidt100511.pdf">letter</a> to Senate chairman Herb Kohl that Schmidt should be recalled to testify by the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee:</p>

Can Occupy Wall Street succeed?

October 6, 2011  ·  Jamie Court

<p> <img class=" size-full wp-image-2250" alt="" class="right" src="https://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/images_jamiepic-new1.jpg" style="width: 133px; height: 200px; " width="133" height="200" /></p> <p> Occupy Wall Street has now drawn the attention of the labor movement, political cognoscente and the White House.  It’s an authentic movement, born of genuine financial distress and betrayal, which is why it is resonating with Americans and is sparking protests in cities across America.</p> <p> But can Zuccotti Park, the occupiers’ camp in lower Manhattan, ever become America’s Tahrir Square?</p>

Facebook Changes Touch Privacy Nerve

October 3, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> Facebook has touched a nerve with a broad range of critics upset about the social network's latest batch of online sharing technology.</p> <p> Ten consumer and privacy groups have joined Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Tex., in calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate new sharing mechanisms designed to accelerate the collection and dispersal of information about Facebook users' Internet activities.</p>

Facebook Tracking Prompts Calls for FTC Investigation

September 30, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> Facebook’s use of software that enables it to track users’ online activity after they log off of the social-networking site came under scrutiny in Washington this week, with lawmakers and consumer advocacy groups demanding a federal investigation.</p>

ACLU Joins Call for FTC Facebook Probe

September 30, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

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Facebook Changes Mark Big Privacy Shift

September 30, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

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Facebook Tracking Probe Sought by Washington Privacy Group

September 29, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<div class="clearfix" id="story-body"> <p class="indent"> A privacy-rights group said it will ask the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to examine Facebook Inc.’s tracking of Internet users after they log off the world’s most popular social-networking service.</p>

Facebook Forms a PAC

September 26, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> <strong>In forming a political action committee, Facebook is joining other social media companies in efforts to integrate with the political landscape.</strong><br /> <br /> Facebook wants more friends. And it's willing to pay for them.<br /> <br />

State Stem Cell Initiative Transforms Local Research

September 26, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

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Back from tracking Google’s Eric Schmidt

September 23, 2011  ·  John M. Simpson

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Agents and Brokers Lead Insurance Campaign Donors, Turn to GOP

September 23, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Driven by opposition to the health reform law and Democrats who supported it groups representing agents and brokers have taken a leading role among political donors from the insurance sector.<br /> <br />

Rude Awakening

September 22, 2011  ·  Mark Reback

<p> K Street is buzzing over the shock and awe tactics Consumer Watchdog used this morning when its members showed up at Google's Director of Public Policy Pablo Chavez's house at 8:30 a.m.<br /> <br /> The California-based group arrived at Chavez's home in an ice cream truck - part of another stunt the group did giving out "free" ice cream and info on Google's online and mobile tracking.<br /> <br /> How did they find Chavez's digs? Simpson said, it was simple. "We Googled him and got all our info on how to go to his house on the Internet.<br />