Watchdog group the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission filed this first-of-its-kind lawsuit against Google in 2007. Google has been cleared of charges that it failed to adequately distinguish paid search ads from organic search results.
Consumer Watchdog is calling on the FTC to block the acquisition. Consumer Watchdog, FairSearch.org Asking for FTC Intervention There is a fundamental conflict between being a search provider and a content provider,” Consumer Watchdog Privacy...
In that case, Australia’s consumer watchdog organization ACCC charged that Google had allowed paid advertisements that misled consumers by showing competitors in search results for businesses. Select Rhode Island law enforcement agencies are about...
Fla.and two watchdog groups – Consumer Watchdog and the Electronic Privacy Information Center – began pushing the FTC to investigate whether Google violated a privacy settlement the FTC signed with Google last year.
According to John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, though, the answer here is clear. Now Consumer Watchdog is demanding that Google make a similar settlement in this case by donating revenue that originated from scams to legitimate credit assistance...
Consumer Watchdog Believes Google 'WiSpy' Potentially Logged Homeland Security Data Seems auditing Google's privacy policies and actions is becoming a popular demand these days, only months after the FTC required Google to submit to bi annual...
Consumer Watchdog Believes Google 'WiSpy' Potentially Logged Homeland Security Data France has fined Google a record €100,000 (about $142,000 U.S. This is the first fine leveled against Google after it was discovered last year that Google had...
Consumer Watchdog is at it again. In the new video "Mr. Schmidt Goes to Washington," the group demands Eric Schmidt be called before Congress for hearings about the data Google collected with its Street View mapping service cars.
Net Neutrality Watchdog Group Uses Google, Facebook Ads To Attack Google - TechCrunch Consumer watchdogs Progressive Change Campaign Committee, have bought ads through Google's own content network and on competitor Facebook, which redirect to an...
Consumer Watchdog Calls on Google To Answer 4 Privacy Questions - WebProNews Consumer Watchdog once again targets Google after the firing of an engineer who invaded the privacy of teenagers. Microsoft adCenter is readying some new features for PPC...
After initially rejecting three AdWords ads submitted by Consumer Watchdog (a major critic of its policies), Google approves the ads following a complaint by the advertiser. Here's a look at more news and helpful advice from around the Web, sorted...
Consumer Watchdog is promoting the video right now, 36 times per day, on a jumbotron in Times Square -- the most highly-trafficked public square in the nation. It's time to create a 'Do Not Track Me' list to prevent online companies from gathering...
The case took a new twist a couple of weeks ago as Consumer Watchdog revealed that Google had also potentially picked up data from the home networks of members of Congress and Homeland Security officials.
In the long list of legal issues Google is facing at the moment, here's another one to add to the record: Consumer Watchdog suspects the Mountain View-based company to have picked up unprotected payload data (i.e.
The White House took action after the breach was revealed through a Freedom of Information Act Request from Consumer Watchdog. Consumer Watchdog does not stand to be satisfied with just a slap on the wrist of McLaughlin and requests that he resigns.
UPDATE: Consumer Watchdog group have asked the FTC to investigate. Simpson, consumer advocate with the nonpartisan, nonprofit consumer group. Google went through the trouble of putting out a quite detailed blog post yesterday to apologize for...
Consumer Watchdog and the Center For Digital Democracy contacted the FTC to halt Google from buying AdMob on anti-trust and privacy grounds, according to Tech Crunch. Tech Crunch includes a letter written to the FTC co-signed by representatives...
According to TRUSTe -- an online privacy watchdog group founded by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the CommerceNet Consortium "to act as an independent, unbiased trust entity" -- more people are aware of behavioral targeting and are...
Consumer watchdog groups are making noise about Chrome's apparent shortcomings in privacy and transparency. Rumors floating about the Web included Google walking away from the deal. Confirmed reports of advertisers around the world being opposed to...
This holds true for companies as well and, as a result, the consumer benefits from better products and services. Millions of people have discovered the benefits of social media. However, a few people and companies have also experienced the...
