Privacy

Group Asks FCC to Make Websites Honor Do-Not-Track Requests

June 15, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<div id="drr-container" itemprop="articleBody"> <p>A consumer rights group wants the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to address growing online privacy concerns by requiring websites to honor do-no-track requests.</p> <p>Consumer Watchdog <a href="http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/fccdntpetiton061515.pdf">filed a formal petition</a> on Monday calling for new FCC rules forcing companies like Google, Facebook, Pandora and Netflix to respect do-not-track requests from a visitor’s browser.</p>

FCC Urged To Impose Privacy Rules On Web Publishers, Ad Networks

June 15, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>The advocacy group Consumer Watchdog wants the Federal Communications Commission to regulate how Facebook, Google and other Web companies protect consumers' privacy.</p> <p>The organization argues in a petition filed today that Web companies shouldn't be allowed to share data with ad networks about consumers who have activated do-not-track. The group also says that ad networks shouldn't be able to “track” consumers who have turned on their do-not-track settings.</p>

Group Asks FCC to Make Web Services Honor ‘Do Not Track’ Requests

June 15, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"> <p dir="ltr">A consumer group on Monday asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to force web service providers like Google to honor users’ requests that their information not be collected and sold.</p>

Consumer Watchdog Asks FCC to Impose Do Not Track On Google, Facebook

June 15, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>The Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules just went into effect last Friday and at least one group is jumping to take advantage of them.</p> <p>Consumer Watchdog petitioned the FCC on Monday to force edge providers like Google and Facebook to honor Do Not Track requests from a consumer’s browser.</p> <p>The public interest group’s move sets off what is bound to be a growing debate over the FCC’s role in protection consumer privacy.</p>

FCC Asked to Apply Do Not Track to Google, Facebook

June 15, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Consumer Watchdog has petitioned the FCC to come up with a new rule requiring edge providers to honor "do not track" requests from Web users. (<a href="http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/fccdntpetiton061515.pdf">http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/resources/fccdntpetiton061515.pdf</a>).</p> <p>The FCC decided in reclassifying ISP's under common carrier regs to apply Sec. 222 Title II protections for customer proprietary network information (CPNI) to broadband, but not the phone-specific rules on how to protect that privacy.</p>

A Shift In Tactics: Vote Postponed While Airbnb & Supporters Consider Growing Opposition

June 10, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Before yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Airbnb put on a show for cameramen from local network affiliates and a small group of <a href="http://pando.com/2015/04/25/stickering-it-to-the-man-airbnb-packs-sf-city-hall-for-public-meeting-on-home-sharing-law/">sticker people</a> and print press outside City Hall.</p>

How Many Times Have Google’s Self-Driving Cars Crashed?

June 8, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>After US organisation Consumer Watchdog made what it claims were “repeated calls for disclosure”, Google is now releasing monthly reports on its self-driving cars, which will detail the number of accidents said vehicles have been involved in.</p> <p>Google’s report for May 2015 said that during the six years the self-driving car project has been running, a total of 12 minor accidents have occurred over the 1.8 million miles driven.</p>

Self-Driving Cars Suffer Setback

June 8, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p><strong>Google, one of the leading manufacturers of driverless cars, has reported that their vehicles have been involved in 11 minor accidents since they started testing the technology six years ago.</strong></p> <p><strong>Just a few months ago, Money Market UK reported that self-driving cars would be available to consumers by 2030. </strong></p>

Google To Report Crashes Of Driverless Cars

June 6, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Driverless cars can cause nausea in some, and boredom in other cases, but the main anxiety is whether, without a driver, they can really be safe. Based on some reports, they are not always. Now Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) has released accident data about its “robot car,” and some of the results are not encouraging.</p>

Google to Release Monthly Data On Self-Driving Car Accidents

June 5, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p style="">Reuters) - Google Inc said it would give monthly updates of accidents involving its driverless cars.</p> <p style="">The report for May showed Google cars had been involved in 12 accidents since the company first began testing its self-driving cars in 2009, mostly involving rear-ending. (<a href="http://bit.ly/1eTPndY">bit.ly/1eTPndY</a>)</p> <p style="">Google said one of its vehicles was rear-ended at a stoplight in California on Thursday, bringing the total count to 13 accidents.</p>

Look, Ma, No Hands!

June 5, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="213" data-total-count="213" id="story-continues-1" itemprop="articleBody">On Wednesday morning, during Google’s annual meeting, a shareholder named John M. Simpson stood up to question the company’s top executives about its <a href="http://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/">self-driving car program</a>. They were not friendly questions.</p>

Google Will Make Monthly Reports On Self-Driving Cars

June 5, 2015  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Google will release monthly reports on the performance of its self-driving cars, and it disclosed summaries of the 12 accidents that involved the vehicles.</p> <p>Google described all of the accidents as minor, saying no injuries were reported. The company said Friday, as it has in the past, that the self-driving technology was not to blame for any of the accidents. In one case, however, an employee used the self-driving car to run an errand and rear-ended another car that was stopped in traffic. Google had previously disclosed that accident, which happened in August 2011.</p>