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California Moves to Respect Consumer’s Online Privacy

CALPIRG supports AB 370 (Muratsuchi) which would require websites to disclose whether or not they honor consumer requests to disable online tracking.

Coming together, pushing back

Tuesday, April 9, 2013
By | Jon Fox
Consumer Advocate

 

Observations from the annual National Conference on Media Reform.

Free Cookies - Strings Attached

Thursday, March 7, 2013
By | Jon Fox
Consumer Advocate

The price consumers pay to access most online content is the tracking of their every click on the World Wide Web by data miners and ad networks. Consumer and privacy advocates are seeking to address such online tracking through Do-Not-Track regulation.

News Release | CALPIRG | Consumer Protection

CALPIRG Applauds FTC’s New Privacy Guidelines for Online Apps

“When less than one-third of Americans feel that they are in control of their personal information on their mobile devices, clearly there is a problem,” said Jon Fox, consumer advocate with CALPIRG.

News Release | CALPIRG | Consumer Protection

Facebook Search Puts Privacy at Risk

CALPIRG calls on consumers to update privacy settings in light of Facebook's new social search engine, Graph Search.

California’s Initiative to label GMOs defeated, but States taking up the Fight

Friday, November 30, 2012
By | Jon Fox
Consumer Advocate

Unfazed by the defeat of Prop 37 in California, consumer groups are working across states for labeling and have united as the Coalition of States for Mandatory GMO Labeling.

Vote Yes on Prop 37

Tuesday, October 30, 2012
By | Emily Rusch
State Director

CALPIRG supports Prop 37 and encourages you to support it, too. The concept behind Prop 37 is simple. Should we as consumers know more about what is in our food? Should we know if our food contains genes that are modified through engineering? 

News Release | CALPIRG | Consumer Protection

California Approves S.B. 1349, protecting students’ privacy on social networks

CALPIRG is pleased to see the privacy protections Californians currently enjoy extended to include social media and online sites.

News Release | CALPIRG | Consumer Protection, Food

CALPIRG Supports Consumers’ Right to Know About Genetically Engineered Foods

CALPIRG endorses Prop 37, joins over 1,000 other consumer, environmental, labor, farmer, health and business groups in the call for the labeling of genetically engineered food.

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