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Thursday Poll: Should Driverless Cars Protect Privacy?
In California, the state is close to approving allowing the automated cars on the road. (And in Spain, a convoy of them recently took to the highway.) But some people in California are raising privacy concerns. Google, of course, is known for tracking where its users go on the web and using that information to make money.
Continue reading...Privacy Group Wants To Put The Brakes on Google’s Driverless Cars
Thursday, May 31, 2012
A privacy group wants to put the brakes on Google's driverless cars, demanding that they shouldn't be allowed on the road until privacy legislation has been put into place. Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group, is demanding that the technology is incorporated into a bill, SB 1289, which would see proper legislation around this technology, put into place to protect people.
Continue reading...Privacy Group Wants Google’s Driverless Cars Kept Off The Road
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
A privacy group is calling on the California Assembly to keep Google's self-driving cars off the road. Consumer Watchdog, a non-profit privacy group, sent an open letter to the Assembly today urging members to defeat a bill, SB 1289, that would allow Google's self-driving cars on California's roads unless the bill is amended to provide "adequate" privacy protection for the cars' users.
Continue reading...California Offers First Test Case for Google’s Robot Cars
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
California Senate Bill 1298 is now up for grabs in the State House after unanimous passage in the state Senate. The bill permits "autonomous vehicles" on California roadways. In a protest letter to the California House Speaker, the group Consumer Watchdog seeks to kill portions of the bill. The group leaders write that the company lost its trustworthiness with the so-called "Wi-Spy scandal, the largest wiretapping effort ever, in which Google's Street View cars sucked up emails, passwords and other data from private Wi-Fi networks in 30 countries around the world." Click here to read a report from the group.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Seeks To Stop Google’s Driverless Cars On U.S. Highways Without Privacy Protections
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Group Seeks Amendments to California Legislation SANTA MONICA, CA –Google’s driverless cars should not be allowed on U.S. highways unless adequate privacy protections for users of the new technology are implemented, Consumer Watchdog said today.
Continue reading...AT&T, Google Among Top Lobbying Spenders in First Quarter
Monday, April 30, 2012
Google critic Consumer Watchdog said the company's increased lobbying expenses show it has bought into the "corrupt Washington power game. "Google claims its motto is, 'don't be evil,' but the amount of cash they are throwing around demonstrates an astounding cynicism," John Simpson, Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Project director, said in an email.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Says Google’s Record Lobbying Tab Shows Astounding Cynicism
Monday, April 23, 2012
Internet Giant’s Expenses Soar 240 Percent, Topping $5.03 Million In 1st Quarter WASHINGTON DC -- Google continues to pump record amounts into its effort to influence federal legislators and policymakers, spending $5.03 million on lobbying in the first quarter of 2012, a 240 percent increase from the same quarter a year ago, according to new disclosures filed with the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Continue reading...Google Spends More On One Day of Lunch Than It Will On FCC Fine
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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...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...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.”
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
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