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Protesters focus on privacy outside Google meeting

June 25, 2012 · Consumer Watchdog

Protests outside Google's shareholders meeting in Mountain View took on a circus-like look Thursday afternoon. Mimes dressed in track suits followed shareholders into the annual meeting. As shareholders lined up to register for the meeting, Consumer Watchdog's Google track team pretended to spy on them. The mimes provided the humor while the director of Consumer Watchdog's privacy project handled the message. "The business model is in fact to track people everywhere," John Simpson said....

Google Track Team Greets Investors At Annual Shareholder’s Meeting

June 21, 2012 · Consumer Watchdog

Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Policy Campaign brought their "Google Track Team" of mimes to "spy" on investors as they arrived for Google's annual shareholder's meeting. The mimes serve as an in-your-face and farcical illustration of what Google's myriad and inescapable technologies do to keep tabs on every move individuals make online.

Class-action lawsuit filed against Blue Shield

June 14, 2012 · Consumer Watchdog

A class-action lawsuit has been filed by Consumer Watchdog against Blue Shield over the shutdown of health insurance plans. Customers who are dropped can sign up for a different Blue Shield plan, but it's not as good.

Blue Shield’s “Death Spiral” Scheme Brings Class Action Lawsuit Against Them

June 13, 2012 · Consumer Watchdog

On the morning of June 13, 2012, Consumer Watchdog announced a lawsuit against Blue Shield of California for abuses by the company against its policy holders. Consumer Watchdog has filed a class action lawsuit against Blue Shield for illegally pushing consumers with pre-existing health conditions into bare-bones coverage, or worse, into the ranks of the uninsured.

A Health Insurance Battle Is Brewing

May 23, 2012 · Jamie Court

Consumer Watchdog's Harvey Rosenfield and Jamie Court join with other consumer advocates and the State's Insurance Commissioner, Dave Jones, to turn in the quarter million signatures collected in LA County. These signatures - counting over 800,000 state-wide - will allow voters to decide next November if health insurers should have to publicly justify their rate hikes before they can take effect.

800,000 Signatures Submitted To Make Health Insurers Justify Their Rates

May 21, 2012 · Consumer Watchdog

Fed up with the endless rate hikes health insurers in California impose on them, over 800,000 Californians signed the petition to put a proposition on the November ballot that would force health insurers to publicly justify their rate hikes and seek approval from the state insurance commissioner before they can take effect.

Consumer Watchdog Campaign: The Preview Insurance Executives Don’t Want You To See.

May 1, 2012 · Consumer Watchdog

One million Californians will be slammed today with health insurance rate hikes as high as 20%. Consumer Watchdog Campaign has a solution. Watch this short, funny movie trailer about an alternative future with no rate hikes, and share it with your friends. Health insurance price hikes recur more often than Groundhog Day -- Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall. Now there’s something Californians can do about it.

Bringing Sanity Back To Health Insurance Rates

April 30, 2012 · Harvey Rosenfield

Consumer Watchdog's Harvey Rosenfield stops by the Blue Cross headquarters in San Fransisco to discuss and promote a ballot proposition that would force health insurers to publicly justify their rate increases before they could take effect.

NBC TODAY SHOW: Are you getting what you pay for at the pump?

April 18, 2012 · Judy Dugan

Consumer Watchdog's Judy Dugan takes on the "hot fuel" ripoff on NBC's Today Show. The pain at the gas pump is palpable. Making it worse: a summertime gas station secret cheats drivers out of billions of dollars. And chains are fighting against changing the rules.

Aetna Announces Double-Digit Rate Hikes For California’s Small Businesses

April 12, 2012 · Consumer Watchdog

Health insurance rates are going up. California's third largest health insurer, Aetna, has announced a new rate hike for many customers in California, which could be as high as 21%. The State Insurance Commissioner says it's excessive and consumer advocates are up and arms, and propose California citizens sign the <a href="http://JustifyRates.org">JustifyRates.org</a> petition to force health insurers to get approval from the insurance commissioner before they can raise rates - just like home and auto insurers have to.

More Health Insurance Rate Hikes in California

April 9, 2012 · Consumer Watchdog

KABC-TV's Nannette Miranda breaks down the harsh realities of California residents who must face an endless stream of rate hikes for their health care, as well as efforts in the state to force the health insurers to play fairly.

Consumer group pushes health insurance regulation

March 13, 2012 · Consumer Watchdog

KABC-LA: Have you noticed your health insurance premiums going up? in the last decade health insurance rates in California have gone up 153% and there are no regulations to stop them. But consumer specialist Ric Romero says Consumer Watchdog Campaign is trying to get an initiative on the November ballot to change that, and it could be quite a battle...