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...
Reports
How Google’s Backing of Backpage Protects Child Sex Trafficking
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
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
Read the report here.
Google+: A Playground for Online Predators
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
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
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
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...