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| 19.10.2025 | The West’s power grid could be stitched together — if red and blue states buy in | By Alex Brown, Stateline.org
For years, Western leaders have debated the creation of a regional energy market: a coordinated grid to pool solar power in Arizona, wind in Wyoming, hydro in Washington and battery storage in California.
The sh... |
| 10.04.2025 | State Farm pleads for emergency rate hikes on California homeowners | State Farm is making its case this week for a major rate hike for California homeowners in a hearing that could prove crucial to the insurer’s future.
The company argues it needs the additional funds to boost capital and avert an increasing... |
| 17.03.2025 | California Insurance Chief Backs 22% State Farm Rate Increase | (Bloomberg) -- California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said he plans to approve a 22% emergency rate increase for State Farm policyholders, pending a public hearing next month, in a move aimed at stabilizing the state’s insurance mar... |
| 16.03.2025 | Wildfires and Insurance: A Double-Edged Sword for California | California is a land of contrasts. Sun-soaked beaches meet rugged mountains. Urban sprawl collides with vast wilderness. But beneath this picturesque facade lies a growing crisis, fueled by climate change and catastrophic wildfires. The rec... |
| 15.03.2025 | California Insurance Chief Backs 22% State Farm Rate Hike | (Bloomberg) -- California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said he plans to approve a 22% emergency rate increase for State Farm policyholders, pending a public hearing next month, in a move aimed at stabilizing the state’s insurance mar... |
| 07.03.2025 | State Farm Requests Emergency 22% Rate Increase Following Los Angeles Fires | Share
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| 31.12.2024 | California Allows Reinsurance Cost in Rates as Fire Worry Grows | (Bloomberg) -- California approved new rules that let insurers account for reinsurance costs when they set rates, the last major step in a regulatory overhaul designed to halt an exodus of carriers amid rising concern over wildfires.
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| 16.04.2024 | Health | She died after liposuction by a pediatrician. Doctors warn of cosmetic surgery’s ‘Wild West’ | Emily Alpert Reyes | (TNS) Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Inside a clinic wedged next to a smoke shop in a South Los Angeles strip mall, Dr. Mohamad Yaghi operated on a 28-year-old woman who had traveled from Las Vegas to have fat trimmed ... |
| 23.03.2024 | How your iPhone could get better if Apple loses its big legal battle | Tech How your iPhone could get better if Apple loses its big legal battle
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| 26.10.2022 | California might levy a new tax on gas companies. Here’s what to know | In summary
Here are the basics of the new windfall profit tax Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed, and how similar taxes have worked in the past.
Few things agitate drivers — and make politicians sweat — like rising prices at the pump.
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| 12.10.2022 | ICYMI: Consumer Watchdog Calls for Windfall Profits Tax, Citing “Record Oil Profits” and “Price Gouging” | SACRAMENTO – Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan advocacy group for American consumers, published a report last week showing the need for a windfall profits tax on California’s oil companies to bring gas prices back under control and put money... |
| 17.05.2022 | Privacy Battle Over Connected Cars Takes An Interesting Turn In California | WILMINGTON, CA: Senator Ricardo Lara ironically appears before a sign reading "FIGHT BACK" as he now ... [+] stands in the middle of a controversy around not fighting back on telematics. (Photo by Brittany Murray/Digital First Med... |
| 16.09.2021 | Mike Feuer Under State Bar Investigation According to Bar Documents And Sources, Consumer Watchdog Reveals | |
| 26.07.2021 | Meet Clearview, the controversial AI facial recognition startup that scrapes billions of social media photos for use by law enforcement agencies | Late last year, we wrote about Clearview, a controversial facial recognition tech startup that uses AI to automatically scrape and collect publicly billions of photos of faces across social media and other websites to build out its biometri... |
| 06.07.2021 | Public Records Act Lawsuit Tests Ricardo Lara's Pledge Of Transparency, Says Consumer Watchdog | |
| 07.06.2021 | California Insurance Commissioner's Wildfire Working Group Embraces Insurance Industry Wish List at Expense of Consumers and Taxpayers, Says Consumer Watchdog | |
| 03.06.2021 | Bill Assigning Responsibility For Recycling Bottles & Cans To Beverage Industry Passes CA Senate In Major Consumer Victory | |
| 26.05.2021 | Waste Haulers Driving California's Bottle Deposit System Failure, New Report Reveals, As Lawmakers Consider System Run By Beverage Industry | |
| 26.05.2021 | California Lawmakers Answer Injured Patients' Call for Reform, Propose Nation's First Public Member Majority Medical Board | |
| 07.05.2021 | Would you like Google to know how long you brush your teeth for? Unearthed patent reveals how Google plans to monitor and report household activities | In recent months, there are several reports of Google Home and Amazon Alexa ‘spying’ on users. Google has even filed a patent application that describes using a future release of its smart Home system to monitor and control everything from ... |
| 18.03.2021 | Families Harmed By Medical Negligence To Testify Doctor-Run Medical Board Is Not Protecting the Public from Harm, Call for Public Member-Majority Board | |
| 15.03.2021 | Bill To Save Collapsing Bottle Deposit System Passes First Legislative Hurdle | |
| 11.02.2021 | Consumer Redemption Rate Stands At 58.9%; Governor and Legislature Must Make Bottle Returns Convenient, Says Consumer Watchdog | |
| 09.12.2020 | Ninth Circuit Reinstates HIV Discrimination Claims Against CVS Prescription Drug Mail-Order Program, Says Consumer Watchdog | |
| 01.12.2020 | On World AIDS Day, an HIV+ Man Sues Doctor and Medical Group for Discrimination After Refusing to Provide Treatment | |
| 01.12.2020 | Consumer Group Calls Teslas ‘The World’s Most Hackable Cars’ | According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, any vehicle that can send or receive an electronic ... [+] signal can be hacked by cybercriminals.getty |
| 13.11.2020 | Consumer Watchdog Hacks A Tesla to Prove Dangers of Wirelessly Connected Cars; Releases "Hack 10" Report About Hackability Of Top 10 Best Selling Cars | |
| 19.10.2020 | Insurance Companies Created Home Insurance Crisis, Consumer Watchdog Testifies at Department of Insurance Wildfire Hearing | |
| 25.09.2020 | $7 Signatures Block Citizen Access to Ballot Initiative Process, E-Signatures Can Restore It, Says New Report | |
| 25.09.2020 | Clearview, a controversial facial-recognition AI startup with an app that lets strangers invade your privacy, raises $8.6 million in funding | We first wrote about Clearview AI in January after the New York Times ran a story about the controversial AI startup, titled: “The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It.” According to the report, more than 600 law enforceme... |
| 21.08.2020 | Insurance Commissioner to Investigate Key Wildfire Insurance Issues Under Legislation Headed to Senate Floor, says Consumer Watchdog | |
| 13.08.2020 | Consumer Watchdog Endorses Prop 24 For Consumer Privacy | |
| 29.05.2020 | Trump’s Executive Order Targeting Twitter Adds To The Growing Calls To Fundamentally Change The Internet | Upset with Twitter TWTR ’s decision to attach a fact-checking notice to his posts, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order yesterday threatening the legal shield benefiting social media giants like Facebook and Twitter. While the O... |
| 22.01.2020 | This startup’s facial-recognition app lets strangers invade your privacy—and the FBI Uses It | Think about this for a moment. What if a stranger could snap a quick picture of you in a public place (which is perfectly legal) and use an app to quickly find your name, address and other details? A small startup called Clearview AI has ma... |
| 25.04.2019 | Chatterbox is a DIY smart speaker for kids that puts privacy first | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant... |
| 28.02.2019 | Californians are losing hundreds of millions of dollars in recycling deposits | California consumers lost out on at least $308 million in 5-cent deposits on cans and bottles in 2018, largely because it’s increasingly difficult to find a place to recycle them, according to a new report.
In the last five years, about 40%... |
| 27.06.2018 | Why coal is a big part of the debate over California moving into a regional power grid | A bill that calls for expanding California’s power grid to include other states in the West is sparking concerns that a regionalized grid would benefit the coal industry, especially in other states in the West where coal makes up a much lar... |
| 20.03.2018 | First Pedestrian Killed by a Self-Driving Car | After what appears to be the first ever pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous vehicle Uber has hit the brakes on its self-driving car tests. The Tempe Police Department has confirmed that the Uber vehicle, a 2017 Volvo SUV was in auto... |
| 12.02.2018 | Consumer watchdog warns: Self-driving cars are not safe to be deployed on public roads | Consumer Watchdog, the nonprofit organization dedicated to providing an effective voice for taxpayers and consumers, today warns the U.S. Senate that autonomous cars are not safe to be deployed on public roads. The watchdog is basing its wa... |
| 07.09.2017 | Oracle breaks with tech industry in backing human trafficking bill | Oracle is one of the few in the tech industry backing a bipartisan bill to hold websites facilitating human trafficking legally accountable.
The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, sponsored by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Senator R... |
| 21.07.2017 | FTC said to be reviewing Amazon's "deceptive" pricing | The Federal Trade Commission is reportedly looking into whether Amazon's discounts are as good as they seem.
As part of the FTC's review of Amazon's (AMZN) agreement to buy Whole Foods (WFM), the Federal Trade Commission is looking into all... |
| 06.07.2017 | Amazon is still inflating discounts despite new name, Consumer Watchdog says | In a bid to promote its deals to consumers, Amazon.com Inc. started displaying current discounts compared to their historic price tags — a strategy that it calls the “was” price.
The “was” price was introduced as the e-commerce giant faced ... |
| 07.02.2017 | Jerry Brown mum on the fate of Aliso Canyon | Feb. 17 will mark exactly one year since the massive gas leak at the Aliso Canyon storage facility was finally plugged.
Now, the facility’s operators, Southern California Gas, says the site is ready to go back online.
State regulators have ... |
| 04.10.2016 | What the new NHTSA guidelines mean for self-driving cars | In September, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued guidelines for the testing and deployment of autonomous [PDF] vehicles. The important thing to remember for now is that these are merely guidelines and not rules. Compl... |
| 20.09.2016 | Consumers’ group wants Uber to publicize self-driving tests | Uber has started to integrate self-driving Volvo XC90 cars into its Pittsburgh ride-hailing fleet this month, a noticeably large leap for a company that only started to work on autonomous cars last year.
Public interest group Consumer Watch... |
| 13.01.2016 | Autonomous car makers hand over data on glitches and failures to California DMV | Delphi's autonomous vehicle.
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| 16.11.2015 | FCC Refuses To Force Websites To Adhere To 'Do Not Track,' And That's A Good Thing | If you’ve followed the saga of “Do Not Track,” you know it began with good intentions, labored under squabbling and marketing industry sabotage, and is now seen by some as too little too late in the face of far more sophisticated new snoopv... |
| 09.11.2015 | You Can Make Your 'Do Not Track' Requests, But Websites Ignore Them And The FCC Does Nothing | Horia Ungureanu, Tech Times 09 November 2015, 06:11 am
On Nov. 6, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) stated that it can do nothing to keep Internet companies like Facebook, Google and ad providers from tracking their users' data on... |
| 07.11.2015 | Privacy blow as FCC says websites can ignore Do Not Track requests | People are more concerned than ever before about online privacy, and this is the very reason Consumer Watchdog filed a petition to force websites to honor Do Not Track Requests. The Federal Communications Commission handed down a ruling whi... |
| 06.11.2015 | Websites can keep ignoring “Do Not Track” requests after FCC ruling | reader comments 111 with 62 posters participating
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| 26.08.2015 | Complaint To FTC Says It’s 'Deceptive' For Google To Not Recognize 'Right To Be Forgotten' In US | If you want an understanding of my general philosophy on business and economics, it’s that companies should focus on serving their customers better. That’s it. It’s a very customer-centric view of capitalism. I think companies that screw ov... |
| 15.07.2015 | Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #75: Hip Hop Summit at Graceland---Michael Casey and Digital Money | Bitcoin and the blockchain – how do they work and what do they mean for financial and government services and for consumers? And who holds massive stores of bitcoin that can’t be spent without solving one of the great financial mysteries of... |
| 08.07.2015 | Google Should Give U.S. Citizens More Privacy Rights, Says Consumer Watchdog | U.S. consumer rights organization, Consumer Watchdog, has lodged a complaint with the FTC that Google is being “unfair and deceptive” by not extending the sorts of individual privacy rights it now offers Europeans — under Europe’s May 2014 ... |
| 07.07.2015 | Pressure mounts on Google to extend Right to Be Forgotten to US | The Right To Be Forgotten has proved controversial. A little over a year ago Google was told by a European court that it should accept requests to remove from search results pages that are "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant&... |
| 11.05.2015 | Google Called Upon To Make Self-Driving Car Accident Reports Public | Google’s self-driving cars are coming under fire again as the Associated Press reported that four out of forty-eight of the cars Google has driving around California have gotten into accidents since September.
As has been the case with prev... |
| 31.03.2015 | Ron Conway, Sean Parker Go To Washington (Again) | A new bipartisan think tank with a focus on creating better opportunities for startups and small businesses is launching in Washington, D.C. today with backing from Silicon Valley. Sean Parker, Ron Conway and other well-known tech figures h... |
| 23.04.2014 | Google, AT&T, Verizon And Comcast Each Spent More Than $3M In Q1 Lobbying Congress | The dollars flowing into the Capitol from tech companies are showing little signs of abatement: Google spent $3.8 million on lobbying in the first quarter, AT&T $3.7 million, Verizon $3.5 million, Comcast $3.1 million, Facebook $2.8 mil... |
| 10.02.2014 | Google Wins Right To Lease Moffett Field, Will Restore Hangar One | Google’s executives have long operated their fleet of private jets out of NASA’s Moffett Field thanks to a long-standing deal with the U.S. government, but it looks like Google is ready to expand its presence at the Silicon Valley airfield.... |
| 23.01.2014 | How Much Google And Other Tech Companies Spent On D.C. Lobbyists In One Chart | Tech companies shelled out over $61 million to influence America’s political leaders in 2013, with Google leading the pack at a handsome $14 million. From high-skilled immigration reform to regulation, tech companies have become increasingl... |
| 05.12.2013 | Google Shopping: Premium prices for consumers? | With Google (GOOG) the top dog in search, you might think Google Shopping would be a great resource for consumers. According to a non-profit advocacy group, though, consumers are more likely to see higher prices with the service than if the... |
| 04.12.2013 | Consumer Watchdog Complains About Google Again | Frequent Google critic Consumer Watchdog (the ones behind the legendary Eric Schmidt evil ice cream man video) has filed a new formal complaint against Google with the Federal Trade Commission. This time it’s about Google Shopping results.
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| 03.12.2013 | Consumers pay up to 67% more for products on Google Shopping | You could be paying substantially more for products if you are searching through Google Shopping.
Consumer Watchdog issued a report today that said Google’s “search monopoly” allows the company to charge higher prices on its shopping search... |
| 14.08.2013 | Press Suckered By Anti-Google Group's Bogus Claim That Gmail Users Can't Expect Privacy | Okay, so as a bunch of folks have been sending over today, there’s been a bit of a furor over a press release pushed out by Consumer Watchdog, a hilariously ridiculous group that has decided that Google is 100% pure evil. The “story” claims... |
| 12.06.2013 | Consumer Watchdog to FTC: Shut down this Google-Waze deal now | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Consumer Watchdog believes that with Google’s purchase of competing major maps app Waze, the company is in prime position to take over ... |
| 12.06.2013 | Consumer Watchdog to FTC: Shut down this Google-Waze deal now | Consumer Watchdog believes that with Google’s purchase of competing major maps app Waze, the company is in prime position to take over the maps market. The group wrote a letter “urging’ the Federal Trade Commission to block the acquisition ... |
| 03.05.2013 | Facebook’s Q1 Lobbying Spend Soars 277 Percent To $2.45M; Google Down 33 Percent | It’s no secret that the amount of time that tech companies are spending in Washington, D.C., is at a high. And money spent on lobbying has also been reaching peaks for a number of well-known technology giants, including Facebook. In the fir... |
| 09.04.2013 | Microsoft hits Google on Android privacy: name, email, and location given to app developers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Whenever you install an app on your Android phone from Google Play, the app developer gets your name, email address, and neighborhood. ... |
| 09.04.2013 | Microsoft hits Google on Android privacy: name, email, and location given to app developers | Whenever you install an app on your Android phone from Google Play, the app developer gets your name, email address, and neighborhood. Microsoft thinks that’s an egregious breach of consumer privacy, and it published a new video today on Sc... |
| 16.11.2012 | Update: Objections to Google-FTC Safari cookies settlement fail to impress judge | Chris Wetherell reader comments 33 with 31 posters participating
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| 13.08.2012 | Mo Content, Mo Problems: Google’s Frommer’s Acquisition Could Lead To Additional Antitrust Scrutiny | With its recent purchase of Zagat and today’s announcement that it is acquiring travel guide company Frommer’s, there can be little doubt that Google is getting deeper into the content business. This move makes a lot of sense for Google, wh... |
| 30.04.2012 | Privacy Advocate Wants Hearing on Google’s Wi-Fi Spying | Now that the non-redacted version of the Federal Communication Commission’s report on Google’s unsettling habit of eavesdropping on unsecured wi-fi network via the Street Car has been made available, the same privacy advocate that chastised... |
| 22.02.2012 | Web privacy standards: easy to break, hard to enforce | Lorrie Faith Cranor of Carnegie Mellon played an instrumental role in developing browser privacy standards.
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| 17.02.2012 | Google hit with FTC complaint, says circumventing Safari privacy features accidental | This cookie was an accident
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The Consumer Watchdog advocacy group today asked the Federal Tra... |
| 20.10.2011 | Los Angeles wants refund for Google Apps | Google may need to act quickly to salvage its $7.25 million deal to migrate the city of Los Angeles to its Google Apps platform, following news that the delayed rollout is still not completed. The city approved the deal two years ago, but i... |
| 20.10.2011 | Google Apps hasn’t met LAPD’s security requirements, city demands refund | Photograph by Fr. Dougal McGuire reader comments 63 with 42 posters participating, including story author
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| 19.10.2011 | Two Years in, Google's L.A. Cloud Contract Hits Security Snag | News Two Years in, Google's L.A. Cloud Contract Hits Security Snag By Kurt MackieOctober 19, 2011
Two years after winning a contract to provide cloud-based applications to the city of Los Angeles, Google is still fielding concerns over the ... |
| 19.10.2011 | Two Years in, Google's L.A. Cloud Contract Hits Security Snag | News Two Years in, Google's L.A. Cloud Contract Hits Security Snag By Kurt MackieOctober 19, 2011
Two years after winning a contract to provide cloud-based applications to the city of Los Angeles, Google is still fielding concerns over the ... |
| 26.09.2011 | Facebook extends tentacles into D.C., forms political action committee | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. just got even... |
| 26.01.2011 | New cartoon: Mr. Schmidt goes to Washington | Consumer Watchdog creates a cartoon to lobby Conrgess to call Schmidt for questioning
In an effort to lobby Congress to call Google CEO (soon to be former CEO) Eric Schmidt to testify under oath about Google’s personal data-gathering activi... |
| 02.09.2010 | Don’t Track Me: Anti-Google Video Plays on Times Square | Twice an hour, an animated version of Google CEO Eric Schmidt can currently be seen giving away free ice cream to little kids in return for their private information on a 540 square foot screen hovering over New York’s Times Square. The car... |
| 09.07.2010 | Google Spies on Congress? Maybe Congress Should Lock Its Wifi | Advocacy group Consumer Watchdog released a report this week claiming that “Google’s WiSpy snooping could have sucked up and recorded communications from members of Congress, some of whom are involved in national security issues”. The BBC q... |
| 05.05.2010 | Congressman moves to make FTC enforce privacy, could impact Facebook's 'Like' | The United States does not officially have an office, bureau, or commission for the oversight of online privacy policies and the enforcement of privacy laws. However, the Federal Trade Commission has acted in that stead, although with limit... |
| 28.12.2009 | Consumer Groups Lobby FTC To Block Google's Acquisition Of AdMob | Google recently revealed that the Federal Trade Commission was intensely reviewing the search giant’s recent $750 million acquisition of mobile ad network AdMob. Last week, Google said the FTC has made a second request for further informati... |
| 05.11.2009 | Roundup: Les Moonves rocks it for CBS, Google’s privacy dashboard gets hated on | CBS beats analysts with $207 million profit for Q3 — Bloomberg reports that CEO Les Moonves “is leading the industry” in getting satellite and cable TV systems to pay retransmission fees that may bring CBS $200 million by 2012 or 2013. Audi... |
| 08.09.2009 | Resistance to Google book deal builds as Google woos Europe | reader comments 12 with 10 posters participating
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Last Friday, the deadline passed for formal comments from parties interested in the Google Book Settlement, but the flow of... |
| 12.05.2009 | Google, Intel, Others Face Resurgence in Antitrust Interest, Actions | No one likes to be a target of government investigation. But given the Obama administration's stated interests, and the modus operandi of the high tech industry, there could be a clash that will have corporations and executives hiring lawye... |
| 03.04.2007 | Chinks in the stem-cell monopoly | The U.S. patent office has invalidated some key stem-cell patents, a significant move that could shake up a potentially huge market for embryonic stem-cell therapies that may one day restore all kinds of body parts for the sick and injured.... |
| 03.04.2007 | Chinks in the stem-cell monopoly | (Note: This item has been copied over to the Life Sciences page from its original location on the VentureBeat main page. To view it in its original context, with comments, click here.)
The U.S. patent office has invalidated some key stem-ce... |
| - | Consumer Watchdog is calling for an investigation in the oil industry’s lobbying effort to block fuel reduction bill | In a letter sent to the California Attorney General and US Attorneys, Consumer Watchdog, a consumer and taxpayer protection organization, is asking for an investigation in the oil industry’s mail scheme campaign against the fuel reduction p... |
