Privacy

Advertisers: US ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Would Be Legally ‘Baseless’

July 31, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>U.S. Regulators would be violating the First Amendment if they were to force Google and other search engines to delist certain irrelevant search results at a user’s request, a major advertising trade group said Friday.  </p> <p>The Association of National Advertisers sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging it to “forcefully reject” a complaint from Consumer Watchdog, which requested that Google be required to allow Americans to have the “right to be forgotten.”</p>

Google Resists Broadening “Right To Be Forgotten”

July 31, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<h2>Advertisers group backs Google, privacy advocates not so much</h2> <p>Not surprisingly, Google is resisting a demand that it broaden the "right to be forgotten" by censoring search results worldwide, saying that allowing one country to censor the Web worldwide would start a "race to the bottom."</p>

Ad Group Urges FTC To Reject Right To Be Forgotten In US

July 31, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<section class="page"> <p style=""><span itemprop="articleBody text">The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should reject a privacy group’s push to extend the E.U.’s controversial right to be forgotten rules to the U.S. because such regulations would have a “sweeping” negative effect on many U.S. companies, a trade group said.</span></p>

Democracy At Work

July 31, 2015  ·  Liza Tucker

<p><img class=" alignright size-full wp-image-2881" alt="" class="right" src="https://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/images_dtscp_logo_0.jpg" style="width: 121px; height: 90px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px; float: right;" width="121" height="90" />When the confirmation of California’s top toxics regulator was over, Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de Leon addressed the audience: “You saw democracy working…” But was this really democracy at work?</p>

Biggest Problem For Robot Cars May Be That People Don’t Want Them

July 29, 2015  ·  John M. Simpson

<p>Promoters of self-driving vehicles tout the supposed benefits the robot cars will bring such as improved road<img class=" alignright size-full wp-image-2879" alt="" src="https://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/images_robocar2.jpg" style="width: 200px; height: 199px; float: right;" width="371" height="370" /> safety if all the technological challenges are solved.  They appear to assume adoption will be widespread once the robot technology is perfected.</p>

The Driverless Car Debate: How Safe Are Autonomous Vehicles?

July 28, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>When it comes to the future of transportation, the first thing that comes to mind is the possibility of <a href="http://www.techtimes.com/articles/71023/20150722/terrafugia-debuts-tf-x-hybrid-electric-vehicle-drives-land-air.htm?exe=reporter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flying cars</a>. <span class="spellchecker-word-highlight"><span class="spellchecker-word-highlight"><span class="spellchecker-word-highlight">It's</span></span></span> easy to imagine an urban utopia with vehicles that float through the air, swerving around buildings, reaching toward the heavens.</p>

Senator Calls For Investigation Of Apple’s Music Streaming Policies

July 23, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<h2 itemprop="description">Licensing terms prohibit competing companies from letting consumers know of better music deals</h2> <div id="drr-container" itemprop="articleBody"> <p>Apple's licensing terms for competing music streaming services may be raising prices for consumers, a potential unfair competition issue that should be investigated, a U.S. senator alleged Wednesday.</p>

US Senator Wants Feds To Investigate Apple Over Music Streaming

July 23, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p><strong>Al Franken is particularly concerned about whether Apple has stymied competition in the music-streaming business by controlling its own application marketplace.</strong></p> <p style="">Apple's streaming-music service may have debuted only a few weeks ago, but already one senator is concerned that the iPhone maker could become a dominant, anticompetitive force.</p>

Consumer Group Is Sour On Apple

July 22, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p><strong><span class="brief">Watchdog warns FTC about streaming dominance</span></strong></p>

Apple Music Under Fire: FTC Investigation Reported, Consumer Group Complains

July 22, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Is Apple playing dirty when it comes to its new music-streaming service?</p>

Senator Urges Probe Of Apple’s Music Streaming Practices

July 22, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p><span id="articleText"><span class="focusParagraph">A U.S. senator wants two federal agencies to investigate whether <a class="vglnk" href="http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=AAPL.O" rel="nofollow"><span>Apple </span><span>Inc</span></a> is breaking antitrust law in how it treats music services that compete with the streaming service it launched in June.</span></span></p>

Apple Music Model Scrutinized By Consumer Watchdog Group Over Antitrust Concerns

July 22, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Apple is once again coming under fire for business practices and deals around <a href="http://www.9to5mac.com/tag/apple-music">Apple Music</a>, the subscription music and video streaming service it launched last month.