Consumer Watchdog and other groups have been critical of Google's privacy policies and business practices. Wednesday's hearing before the Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee will focus on whether Google's dominance over the online search market is harming competition or helping consumers. "We want to dramatize Google's online tracking credit reports online Syracuse and focus attention on the issue," Consumer Watchdog's John Simpson said via e-mail. "If you track people in the real world, it's stalking, if you do it online it's just business. Besides, mimes can be creepy and tracking is creepy." In addition to the mimes, Consumer Watchdog also will be playing off a previous anti-Google stunt by having an ice cream truck on Capitol Hill to give out free ice cream along with information about Google's data collection activities. It's playing off a video that Consumer Watchdog displayed in New York's Times Square last fall showing a cartoonish Schmidt offering free ice cream to children while he collected personal information about them. Richard Blumenthal, credit reports online Syracuse D-Conn., a member of the Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, told reporters Tuesday that senators will ask Google about how it uses its power in the marketplace. fair credit report
"I'm going to be asking questions that will be challenging on those issues credit reports online Syracuse of Google's power in the marketplace and whether it has acquired the kind of dominance that means it has certain legal responsibilities and whether it has complied with credit reports online Syracuse those responsibilities," Blumenthal said. As Connecticut attorney general, Blumenthal launched a credit reports online Syracuse probe last year after Google revealed that its Street View vehicles, which collect images for its mapping service, had "mistakenly" collected personal data from unsecured home and business Wi-Fi networks. The Internet makes small-town gossip especially vicious, The New York Times reports. Comcast is rolling out its cheap broadband plans for poor families, CNET reports. online credit reporting Don't look for a "dislike" button when Facebook releases new features this week, MSNBC says. Cellular South announced on Monday that it would join Sprint and the U.S. Department of Justice in challenging AT&T's proposed $39 billion merger with T-Mobile in court. "AT&T's proposed takeover of T-Mobile would profoundly impact the interests of the wireless industry as a whole," Eric Graham, Cellular credit reports online Syracuse South vice president for strategic & government relations, said in a statement. "If AT&T were to complete this deal, not only would it substantially lessen competition, but it would essentially consolidate the market into the hands of the 'Big Two' - AT&T and Verizon." The Justice Department filed suit to block credit reports online Syracuse the merger last month and on Sept. Cellular South now joins the legal fight, despite doubts from legal experts who wondered why Sprint would enter the court fight. Netflix spins its DVD service off as a new company. The Washington Post breaks down what this means for customers.
In other news, The New York Times takes a look at Google's antitrust woes. The Federal Communications Commission has sent credit reports online Syracuse its network neutrality regulations to the Federal Register for publication, an FCC spokesperson said on Monday. free credit report 3 scores The rules, designed to prevent Internet companies from engaging in anticompetitive behavior, were sent to the Register on Friday. The Federal Register usually publishes credit reports online Syracuse such regulations within 1-3 weeks of receiving them, and the regulations will then take effect 60 days after publication. Once published, the rules will likely face a new round of challenge from critics who say they are unneeded and overly broad.
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