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Google Spends More On One Day of Lunch Than It Will On FCC Fine
According to a report by ProPublica, the FCC legally could have fined Google up to $337,500. Mashable has contacted the FCC for comment on how the fees were calculated and will update this article with any response.
Continue reading...Consumer Groups Slate Google’s Tiny Wi-Spy Fine
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
John Simpson, director of the Privacy Project at the Consumer Watchdog group, said he was pleased the FCC derided Google “for its blatantly obstructionist violations, but $25,000 is chump change to an Internet giant like Google. By willfully violating the Commission’s orders, Google has managed to continue to hide the truth about Wi-Spy. Google wants everyone else’s information to be accessible, but in a demonstration of remarkable hypocrisy, stonewalls and keeps everything about itself secret.”
Continue reading...Sergey Brin Pounds Fists Against Walled Gardens
Monday, April 16, 2012
"Whenever Google raises the cry of defending Internet freedom, it's always really about what's best for Google's business model," John Simpson, consumer advocate at Consumer Watchdog, told TechNewsWorld.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Demands FCC Release Uncensored Google Wi-Spy Decision, Decries Internet Giant’s Hypocrisy For Deliberately Obstructing Investigation
Monday, April 16, 2012
SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today demanded that the Federal Communications Commission release an uncensored version of its highly redacted decision to fine Google $25,000 for deliberately impeding and delaying its investigation of the Wi-Spy scandal.
Continue reading...Industry, Privacy Advocates Offer Competing Views of ‘Do-Not-Track’
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
John Simpson with Consumer Watchdog, which along with Chester’s group and other privacy advocates is backing the EFF/Mozilla proposal, argues that the industry’s proposal “has so many loopholes it’s meaningless.”
Continue reading...Franken, Consumer Groups Urge Obama to Push for New Online Privacy Rules
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Consumer Watchdog urged the Commerce Department to propose its own privacy legislation and push Congress to pass it. "Calls for action in policy papers are easy. The test of commitment is to translate high-minded principles like the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights into real legislative language," the group wrote. It urged the Commerce Department to propose the legislation before moving forward with negotiations with Web companies.
Continue reading...‘Girls Around Me’ Shows a Dark Side of Social Networks
Monday, April 2, 2012
John M. Simpson, the director of Consumer Watchdog's privacy project, said even if people understand what data they're sharing on social networks, they don't expect it to be "reconfigured so they can be hit upon. Just because something is technologically possible is no justification for necessarily doing it," he said.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Calls on Commerce Department To Offer Privacy Legislation
Monday, April 2, 2012
Says Proposed “Multi-Stakeholder Process” Must Be Fair, Transparent and Credible SANTA MONICA, CA – Consumer Watchdog today called on the U.S. Department of Commerce to offer legislation to implement the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights proposed by the Administration.
Continue reading...Google Guns for Facebook With Third-Party Comment Platform
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
"However Google configures this, it's clear that it's all about competing with Facebook and keeping users logged into Google's services," John Simpson, consumer advocate at Consumer Watchdog, told TechNewsWorld. "Google is terrified of Facebook's gains and is doing everything possible to fight them."
Continue reading...FTC Releases Online Privacy Report: Does It Go Too Far? Not Far Enough?
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The FTC report is being celebrated by groups like nonprofit Consumer Watchdog, whose director John Simpson said in a statement: “The FTC’s support of Do Not Track means that consumers should have a meaningful way to control the tracking of their online activities by the end of the year.”
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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