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Bono Mack Plans Privacy Hearing
WASHINGTON – As watchdog groups urge a slowdown in Google's new privacy policy, Rep. Mary Bono Mack's office announced Tuesday a hearing on privacy issues March 29 in which Google will likely participate.
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...Consumer Groups Say Commerce Subcommittee Should Hold Public Hearing on Google’s Privacy Plans, Not Closed-Door Briefing
Friday, February 24, 2012
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Five consumer and privacy groups today joined in sending a letter to the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade calling for public hearings on Google planned privacy changes, rather than a secret briefing.
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.”
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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