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Google Downplays Claim It May Have Breached Lawmakers’ Home Networks
Consumer Watchdog, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based advocacy group that has been a sharp critic of Google's privacy practices in the past, said Thursday that the search giant may have breached the networks while its vehicles were collecting wireless SSID information for the company's Street View service.
Continue reading...Google Accused of US “Snooping”
Friday, July 9, 2010
Google's popular Street View project may have collected personal information of members of Congress, including some involved in national security issues. The claim was made by leading advocacy group, Consumer Watchdog which wants Congress to hold hearings into what data Google's Street View possesses.
Continue reading...Sniffing in StreetView’s Tracks
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Google’s horrendous breach of privacy with its StreetView data-collection gaffe may at least have one beneficial consequence: making WiFi users think more about security. Consumer Watchdog, which has emerged as one of the main anti-Google agitators, decided to follow in the tracks of the StreetView cars - literally. It sent out its own vehicle to “sniff” the WiFi networks of certain members of the US Congress whose homes have been photographed by the Google service.
Continue reading...Consumer Group Says Google May Have Tapped State Secrets
Thursday, July 8, 2010
To find out, Consumer Watchdog picked five members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and drove around their D.C. homes. Using software downloaded from the Internet, they determined one of the five - Democrat Jane Harman of El Segundo - was using two unsecured networks.
Continue reading...Google WiSpying Hit Congress; National Security Data Could Have Been Gathered
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Google’s WiSpy snooping could have sucked up and recorded communications from members of Congress, some of whom are involved in national security issues, an investigation by Consumer Watchdog’s InsideGoogle.com has found.
Continue reading...State AGs heed our call for WiSpy probe
Friday, June 18, 2010
Attorneys general across the United States are responding to Consumer Watchdog's call to investigate Google's WiSpy debacle in which the company used its Street View vehicles to snoop on private WiFi networks for three years.
Continue reading...Google Raises Its Game In Washington
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
John Simpson, a researcher for the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog who was the first to raise questions about McLaughlin's appointment to the White House, said Google's bumbling intellectual persona in Washington is just an act.
Continue reading...Google’s Economic Report Is Self-Serving Hype, Consumer Watchdog Says
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
“This is what every big corporation does when they are under fire,” said John M. Simpson, consumer advocate with the nonpartisan, nonprofit group. “They divert attention from their wrongdoing and spin a story about their contributions.”
Continue reading...White House and Google: Cozy, As Charged
Friday, May 21, 2010
By browsing through several dozen emails now being posted by a consumer group, anyone can read for himself the chummy chatter that has been occurring for the past year between a couple of senior Google officers and White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin, who headed Google's global public policy unit until assuming his current post in May 2009.
Continue reading...New Website Tracking Google’s Impact on Privacy
Thursday, May 20, 2010
"Google advocates openness and transparency for everyone else, but when it comes to their own activities, the company is extremely secretive," said Consumer Watchdog spokesman John Simpson. "Inside Google will focus needed public attention on Google's activities."
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Friday, July 9, 2010
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