Reports

How Google’s Backing of Backpage Protects Child Sex Trafficking

May 17, 2017  ·  John M. Simpson

Details of Backpage’s victims have filled multiple lawsuits, legal actions and government investigations: A 13-year-old girl in Miami whose pimp tattooed his name on her...

Google Glass Raises Privacy And Safety Concerns

April 16, 2014  ·  Consumer Watchdog

Google Glass raises privacy and safety concerns, said Consumer Watchdog in a report released Monday.

Consumers Are Charged More As A Result of Google’s Search Monopoly

February 12, 2014  ·  John M. Simpson

Read the report here.

Google+: A Playground for Online Predators

December 15, 2013  ·  John M. Simpson

From March to September 2013, an investigation was undertaken to detail the significant privacy issues Google+ users may encounter when using the service. The evidence...

Liars and Loans: How Deceptive Advertisers Use Google

February 1, 2011  ·  John M. Simpson

Google has been a prominent beneficiary of the national home loan and foreclosure crisis of the past two years. The giant search engine company has...

Lost in the Cloud: Google and the U.S. Government

January 12, 2011  ·  John M. Simpson

An ambitious quest for influence with the U.S. government is starting to pay off for tech giant Google, a Consumer Watchdog investigation has found.  Read...

Traffic Report: How Google Is Squeezing Out Competitors and Muscling Into New Markets

June 2, 2010  ·  John M. Simpson

Google has been muscling into new web markets and greatly expanding its dominance of other web commerce sectors since 2007, when the web search giant...