Privacy

Car Industry’s New Code Requires Drivers’ Consent To Share Location Data

November 17, 2014  ·  Mark Reback

<p><span>Car manufacturers won't be able to provide precise geolocations for automobiles to marketers without drivers' opt-in consent under a new privacy code adopted by the industry.</span></p> <p>The code also requires consumers' explicit consent before information about their driving skills -- including how fast they go, and braking patterns -- is revealed to marketers and other third parties. The principles also require car companies to disclose their privacy policies.</p>

Is Google Too Powerful Too Be Held Accountable?

November 15, 2014  ·  John M. Simpson

<p><img class=" alignright size-full wp-image-2830" alt="" src="https://consumerwatchdog.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/images_public-citizen-vert-green-and-blue.jpg" style="width: 230px; height: 185px; float: right;" width="1200" height="937" /></p> <p>Internet giant Google is so rapidly expanding both its data collecting and its political clout that it may become too powerful to be held accountable, according to a new study by our friends at <a href="https://www.citizen.org">Public Citizen</a>.</p>

2014 Midterm Elections Reflect State And Nationwide Changes

November 12, 2014  ·  Mark Reback

<p>The midterm elections were held on Nov. 4, 2014. Although not a major presidential election, this election determined which political party would have control of the Senate for the next two years.</p> <p>In order to have a majority in the Senate, 51 out of the 100 seats needed to be filled by one political party. The Republican Party was able to obtain 52 seats, beating out the Democratic Party, which was able to fill 46 seats. Two still are too close to call or have a runoff scheduled.</p>

NASA, Google Ink Deal For Hangar One, Moffett Airfields

November 11, 2014  ·  Mark Reback

<div class="story"> <p class="story_text">NASA announced today that officials signed a lease with Google's Planetary Ventures LLC to manage Moffett Federal Airfield and rehabilitate the landmark Hangar One.</p> <p class="story_text">The agreement comes more than three years after Google's top executives offered to restore the massive hangar built in the early 1930s. Planetary Ventures was awarded the lease in February, after offering to restore Hangar One in exchange for a long-term lease of the space in 2011.</p>

NASA Agrees To Lease Moffett Airfield To Google

November 11, 2014  ·  Mark Reback

<p class="headline"><strong>The tech giant will pay $1.16 billion over the course of a 60-year lease in order to conduct research at the Moffett Federal Airfield in California.</strong></p>

Google To Take Over Much Of Moffett Field, Restore Hangar One

November 11, 2014  ·  Mark Reback

<p class="bodytext"><span id="default"><span id="MNGiSection">MOUNTAIN VIEW -- In a deal that promises to restore Moffett Field's beloved Hangar One, Google on Monday said it would spend more than $200 million to rehab that and two other hangars, create an educational center and assume management for much of the historic air base, drawing cheers from preservationists. </span></span></p>

Google Signs 60-Year, $1 Billion NASA Lease

November 11, 2014  ·  Mark Reback

<div class="copy-paste-block"> <div class="article-firstGraf" itemprop="description"> <p>SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. has signed a long-term lease for part of a historic Navy air base, where it plans to renovate three massive hangars and use them for projects involving aviation, space exploration, and robotics.</p> <p>The giant Internet company will pay $1.16 billion in rent over 60 years for the property, which also includes a working air field, golf course, and other buildings. The 1,000-acre site is part of the former Moffett Field Naval Air Station on the San Francisco Peninsula.</p>

Consumer Group SLAMS NASA For Letting Google Rent $1 Billion ‘Playground’

November 11, 2014  ·  Mark Reback

<h2 class="standfirst">Mountain View gets 60-year lease on historic Moffett Airfield</h2> <p>A consumer watchdog has slammed NASA for signing a whopping $1bn deal that will see a historic airbase turned into Google's space "playground".</p> <p>Mountain View has <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/november/nasa-signs-lease-with-planetary-ventures-llc-for-use-of-moffett-airfield-and/#.VGEgQlPF9ih" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inked a deal</a> with the space agency which will see it rent Moffett Federal Airfield for 60 years.</p>

Firefox Develops a Case of Selective Amnesia

November 11, 2014  ·  Mark Reback

<p>Roughly 10 years to the day after the release of Firefox 1.0, Mozilla on Monday announced an updated version of its open source browser complete with a new Forget button aimed at protecting users' privacy.</p>

Google Signs 60-Year Lease For Research Space At NASA’s Moffett Airfield

November 10, 2014  ·  Mark Reback

<h2 itemprop="description">Google is paying $1.16B and plans to renovate and use the historic Hangar One</h2> <div id="drr-container" itemprop="articleBody"> <p>Google is paying $1.16 billion over 60 years to lease from NASA the Moffett Federal Airfield in California.</p> <p>The Internet giant plans to renovate and use the historic Hangar One, originally built to house airships, for research, development, assembly and testing in the areas of "space exploration, aviation, rover/robotics and other emerging technologies," NASA said Monday.</p>

Done Deal: Google Seals Lease With NASA For Moffett Airfield

November 10, 2014  ·  Mark Reback

<p>A <a class="ct saveLink" href="http://www.bizjournals.com/profiles/company/us/ca/mountain_view/google_inc/15435">Google</a> Inc. subsidiary has sealed a deal with NASA to lease Moffett Field — plugging in the largest puzzle piece yet in Google's massive Peninsula real estate expansion and paving the way for the rehabilitation of the storied Hangar One.</p>

Uneven Fight To Lift Cap On Suits – Prop. 46 foes spent $60 million to defend a decades-old limit on malpractice awards

November 9, 2014  ·  Mark Reback

<p class="loose"><span class="SS_L3"><span class="verdana">The election day drubbing of <span class="hit">Proposition</span> <span class="hit">46,</span> an initiative that would have increased limits on certain medical malpractice damages, marks a stinging defeat for the state's trial attorneys, who championed the measure.</span></span></p>