January 23, 2026
Technology has increasingly taken over every aspect of property insurance. There’s the algorithm that decides how much insurance we need when we sign up, the...
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January 23, 2026
We all know who the big insurance companies are, but they are only a part of the insurance claims galaxy. Once you file a wildfire...
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July 2, 2025
As of June 2025, all 165 standing homes from which testing data has been collected by the resident-led coalition Eaton Fire Residents United showed elevated...
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April 17, 2025
A new investigative report (opens in new tab) by Consumer Watchdog explains the sudden reversal by electric worker and corporate lobbyist Scott Wetch to support a...
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December 14, 2024
Consumers this holiday season are likely charged different prices for the same product without even knowing it by companies surveilling them,
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September 12, 2024
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...
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August 1, 2024
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...
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February 1, 2024
When California’s insurance regulator operated behind closed doors, the insurance companies always won. Insurance premiums soared, people were denied insurance for no legitimate reason, and...
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January 11, 2024
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...
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April 19, 2023
After decades of consumer and media criticism of California’s failed bottle deposit return program, Governor Newsom and the California Legislature last year finally passed a...
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March 29, 2023
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...
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October 19, 2022
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...
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