Tag Archive | "Privacy"
Google moves to profit from its “crown jewels” — your data
A Wall Street Journal article this week details how Google is increasingly moving to maximize profits from the vast amount of personal data it has amassed in its global network of servers at the expense of consumers' privacy. Google chairman Eric Schmidt once claimed Google put its money "where our principles are." The Journal's revealing article showing how profits triumph over privacy demonstrates the stark reality: Google puts its principles where the money is.
Continue reading...There’s no privacy in third world America
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
A big New York foundation once told me years ago that privacy is the last thing people in the developing world have to worry about. It was a nice way of saying no to funding for my consumer group's privacy project, but the line rang out to me again this week as new reporting at the Wall Street Journal brings into focus the great privacy betrayals of America's giant tech companies and Third World America, Arianna Huffington's new book, makes its debut.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog asks FBI, DEA to explain use of Google Earth
Monday, August 9, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The FBI and DEA are now making extensive use of Google Earth, according to federal spending records. Consumer Watchdog is filing Freedom of Information Act requests with the agencies today to determine how the Internet giant’s digital mapping technology is being used for domestic surveillance, including whether it is used for racial profiling or other abuses of civil liberties.
Continue reading...Google betrays Internet principle to fatten bottom line, Consumer Watchdog Says
Thursday, August 5, 2010
SANTA MONICA, CA -- Google is compromising a long standing principle it claimed to support in an effort to boost profits as it backs away from a key premise of an open Internet — “net neutrality,” Consumer Watchdog said today.
Continue reading...Fortune says the “search party” is over for Google
Monday, August 2, 2010
Google has a stranglehold on search with 65 percent of the U.S. market -- and even more in some other countries -- but writing in Fortune magazine, Michael C. Copeland, says the Internet giant needs to find new sources of revenue or lose its status as a growth company.
Continue reading...Google Teams Up with CIA to Fund “Recorded Future” Startup Monitoring Websites, Blogs & Twitter Accounts
Friday, July 30, 2010
Investors at the CIA and Google are backing a company called "Recorded Future" that monitors tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts in real time in order to find patterns, events and relationships that may predict the future. The news comes amidst Google’s so-called "Wi-Spy" scandal, that refers to revelations that Google’s Street View cars operating in some thirty countries snooped on private Wi-Fi networks over the last three years.
Continue reading...Google WiFi Data Collection Questions Whether America Protects Privacy At All
Thursday, July 29, 2010
According to a new poll from Consumer Watchdog a major part of Americans are very concerned about the privacy issues arousing from Google’s Street View data collection. Much covered reports about Google’s gathering private information from users’ WiFi networks make US consumers doubt in the efficiency of privacy protection measures implemented today, they want better privacy protections put in place.
Continue reading...Why we need to demand a Congressional hearing on Google’s Wi-Spying
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
We need your help. Sign our petition and demand that Google comes clean about the Wi-Spy scandal. Demand that Congress hold hearings immediately into the question of why Google thinks it's OK to gather our private data and what they plan on doing with it. Google must also explain its relationship with the National Security Agency.
Continue reading...Google Users Concerned About WiSpy But Still Prefer Google
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Web consumers are concerned about Google's collection of data over wireless networks, but still give the search engine and Web services provider a favorable rating of 74 percent. That's the latest from a poll conducted by Google watchers Consumer Watchdog and Grove Insight, which also found citizens are concerned about their privacy.
Continue reading...Extension Lets You Know If Google Is Spying On You
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Google has also come under scrutiny from Consumer Watchdog, which has said that the Energy and Commerce Committee must conduct hearings into Google privacy violations, with information coming to light about Google's classified contracts with the US government. Consumer Watchdog suggests that Google has been fibbing.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
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