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Five Privacy Groups Urge Congresswoman For Public Hearing On Google Changes
The letter was signed by Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), John Simpson, privacy policy director at Consumer Watchdog, Susan Grant, director of consumer protection at the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), and Ed Mierzwinski, consumer program director for the U.S. Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG).
Continue reading...Google Will Add Opt-Out Button To Its Browser
Friday, February 24, 2012
"The real question is how much influence companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook will have in their inevitable attempt to water down the rules that are implemented, and render them essentially meaningless," said John Simpson, privacy policy director of Consumer Watchdog, in a statement.
Continue reading...Privacy Advocates Want Strong Role in Crafting Industry Codes
Thursday, February 23, 2012
"The real question is how much influence companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook will have in their inevitable attempt to water down the rules that are implemented and render them essentially meaningless. I am skeptical about the 'multi-stakeholder process', but am willing to make a good faith effort to try," John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog said in a statement.
Continue reading...Obama Administration Seeks Online Privacy Rules
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit research and advocacy group in California, said the approach will work only if influential companies don’t water down the rules to render them meaningless. "I am skeptical about the ’multi-stakeholder process,’ but am willing to make a good-faith effort to try," said John M. Simpson, the group’s privacy project director. He’s referring to the various parties with competing interests tasked with making the rules.
Continue reading...White House Looks to Nail Down Online Privacy Regulations
Thursday, February 23, 2012
A coalition of 11 consumer advocacy agencies and civil liberty and privacy organizations has responded by releasing a set of principles for the multi-stakeholder process. This "would ensure a fair process," John Simpson, consumer advocate at coalition member Consumer Watchdog, told TechNewsWorld.
Continue reading...Apple, Google, RIM Plaster Privacy Warnings On Prying Apps
Thursday, February 23, 2012
"This is an improvement from the current Wild West that is the mobile market," said John M Simpson of the Californian Consumer Watchdog Privacy Project.
Continue reading...Consumer groups encouraged by ‘Consumer Bill of Rights’
Thursday, February 23, 2012
"The only problem with this, is that the W3C has yet to agree what 'Do Not Track' technical standards and compliance obligations will be," John Simpson, director of the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog said in a statement. "If the W3C standards are stricter than industry wants, I can't believe they will follow them. I hope not, but this may actually be an effort to undermine the W3C process."
Continue reading...Will Congress make Obama’s Privacy Bill of Rights law?
Thursday, February 23, 2012
“The real question is how much influence companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook will have in their inevitable attempt to water down the rules that are implemented and render them essentially meaningless,” says John Simpson, spokesman for Consumer Watchdog. ” I am skeptical about the ‘multi-stakeholder process’, but am willing to make a good faith effort to try it.
Continue reading...White House, Consumers in Mind, Offers Online Privacy Guidelines
Thursday, February 23, 2012
"The real question is how much influence companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook will have in their inevitable attempt to water down the rules that are implemented and render them essentially meaningless,” John M. Simpson, privacy project director for Consumer Watchdog, said in response to the administration’s plan. "A concern is that the administration’s privacy effort is being run out of the Commerce Department.”
Continue reading...White House Plan For Privacy Bill Of Rights Could Boost Protections, Consumer Watchdog Joins Groups Issuing Principles For Fair Process, Voices Some Concerns
Thursday, February 23, 2012
SANTA MONICA, CA – The Obama Administration's blueprint to protect online privacy with a "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights" unveiled today could provide meaningful protections, Consumer Watchdog said, but warned that the test of its effectiveness will come as the implementation unfolds. The nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest group also voiced a concern that an announced Internet industry commitment to honor "Do Not Track" could be aimed at undercutting an effort by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to create a strict Do Not Track standard.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
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