Lowball: What Fire Survivors Want You To Know About Insurance Claims
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...
Dirty Deal: How A Corporate Utility Fixer Is Poised To Turn Over California Climate...
A new investigative report by Consumer Watchdog explains the sudden reversal by electric worker and corporate lobbyist Scott Wetch to support a controversial energy bill...
Surveillance Price Gouging
Consumers this holiday season are likely charged different prices for the same product without even knowing it by companies surveilling them,
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...
How Citizen Enforcement of Proposition 103 has Saved Californians $5.5 Billion – and Why...
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,...
Hallucinating Risk: Here’s How Artificial Intelligence Is Taking Over Wall Street and What Can...
Major Wall Street investment banks are pouring billions of dollars into AI research, patents, and financing without adequate safeguards, according to an investigation by...
At Your Convenience: How California Can Make Refunding Bottle Deposits As Easy As Buying...
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...
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...
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...
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