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Consumer Watchdog Takes “Do Not Track Me” Campaign to Times Square With Animated Video Targeting Google CEO’s Lack of Respect For Privacy
SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog’s InsideGoogle.com has taken its online privacy campaign to New York’s Times Square, where it has purchased a 540 sq. ft. Jumbotron digital advertisement promoting an animated video satirizing Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s attitude toward consumer privacy.
Continue reading...Google as Pentagon contractor
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Google’s emergence as a major defense contractor was underscored last week when the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency tweaked its Aug. 20 announcement of a sole-source contract to the search giant for visualization services.
Continue reading...Google faces close DOJ scrutiny on ITA
Friday, August 27, 2010
Despite what the spinmeisters over at Google's Public Policy Blog would have you believe, the Internet giant is facing tough scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice over its planned acquisition of ITA Software.
Continue reading...Four House members blast Google-Verizon plan; call on FCC to act
Monday, August 16, 2010
Four members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, on Monday called the Google-Verizon joint net neutrality plan too "industry-centered" and called on the Federal Communications Commission to regulate broadband.
Continue reading...“Do Not Track Me” gains traction in Washington
Sunday, August 15, 2010
I'm just back from a sweltering week in Washington, DC, convinced that those of us who care about protecting consumers' online privacy have reason for optimism. There is growing interest in creating a "Do Not Track Me" list and mechanism to implement it.
Continue reading...Smile! Aerial Images Being Used to Enforce Laws
Saturday, August 14, 2010
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — On New York’s Long Island, it’s used to prevent drownings. In Greece, it’s a tool to help solve a financial crisis. Municipalities update property assessment rolls and other government data with it. Some in law enforcement use it to supplement reconnaissance of crime suspects. High-tech eyes in the sky — from satellite […]
Continue reading...Santa Monica Consumer Group Alleges Google-Verizon Internet Plan Could Hinder Universal Internet Access
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
A Santa Monica-based consumer watchdog group this week decried a proposal by Google and Verizon Communications that it says would put an end to net neutrality and create a system of pay-to-play haves and have-nots when it comes to internet access.
Continue reading...Google Proposes Separate Rules for Wireless Web
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Verizon Communications Inc. and Google Inc. urged U.S. regulators to leave wireless Internet services outside most policies that are designed to prevent carriers from making some websites perform better than others. Consumer Watchdog, a consumer group based in Santa Monica, said the proposal "completely undermines the future of the Internet" because the wireless use of the Web is gaining in popularity.
Continue reading...Google-Verizon call for Congressional ban on Net Neutrality for mobile devices
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
John Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog, concurs. He says the Google-Verizon proposal “pays lip service” to Net Neutrality and contains two fundamental flaws.
Continue reading...Anger Greets Google-Verizon Plan for Routing Web Traffic
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
"Ultimately, consumers would pay the costs for the premium delivery, or worse, would never see the content of smaller companies," says John Simpson, director of advocacy group Consumer Watchdog. "Google claims it won't use premium channels for delivery, but not long ago they professed to defend true net neutrality."
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
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