Surveillance Price Gouging
Consumers this holiday season are likely charged different prices for the same product without even knowing it by companies surveilling them,
Reports
Data Stalkers
Data brokers know more than google, but Californians aren’t opting out. Here’s how that could change. Despite laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act...
No Opt Out
With thousands of companies selling your data, there is no easy way to exercise privacy right. But help is on the way. Even with strong...
Hallucinating Risk: Here’s How Artificial Intelligence Is Taking Over Wall Street and What Can be Done About It
Major Wall Street investment banks are pouring billions of dollars into AI research, patents, and financing without adequate safeguards, according to an investigation by Consumer...
Unseen Hand: How Automatic Decision-making Breeds Discrimination and What Can Be Done About It
Consumer Watchdog released a report spotlighting the profiling flaws of algorithms and submitted a letter this week to the state privacy agency outlining how new...
Privacy Dawn: What’s At Stake With Our Data and How It’s Being Protected
Our personal data is sold hundreds of times a day and worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but if regulations for a first-in-the-nation privacy law...
Connected Cars and the Threat to Your Privacy
A new report details the privacy problems posed for consumers from connected cars and points to new rules to be developed in California as a...
Connected Car Report 2020: The Models Most Open To Hacks
“Connected Car Report 2020: The Models Most Open To Hacks,” finds all of Car and Driver’s top 10 best-selling cars for 2020 clearly have features that...
KILL SWITCH: Why Connected Cars Can Be Killing Machines And How To Turn Them Off
Developed with the help of car industry technologists, “Kill Switch” finds all the top 2020 cars have Internet connections to safety critical systems that leave...
Home Invasion: Google, Amazon Patent Filings Reveal Digital Home Assistant Privacy Problems
A new study reveals that Amazon and Google have filed patent applications for a number of technologies that would dramatically expand surveillance of consumers’ private...
Self-Driving Vehicles: The Threat to Consumers
Self-driving vehicles have become a cultural and political phenomenon. To peruse the breathless headlines is, like a ride in Marty McFly’s DeLorean, to experience the...
Amazon Slime: Amazon’s New Consumer Deception
Two Consumer Watchdog reports show that Amazon is deceiving its customers by putting fake crossed-out prices next to its products. It’s a deceptive marketing ploy...