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3 unusual facts about Consumer Watchdog


Consumer watchdog

Consumer Watchdog, an organization that advocates for taxpayer and consumer interests in the United States

Consumer Watchdog

It also alleged that Google's influence with the Obama Administration, the US Department of Homeland Security, Federal Communications Commission, NASA, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the US Department of Defense, and the US National Security Agency has helped shield Google, and caused what they described as insufficient Federal government action on Google’s Wi-Fi privacy infringements.

In 2010, to bring attention to Google's privacy issues, Consumer Watchdog checked networks in California Representative Jane Harman's home to see if her unencrypted Wi-Fi network might have been tapped when the company captured images for the Google Streetview service of Google Maps.


Indira Naidoo

In 2006, Naidoo became the media manager and spokeswoman for CHOICE, an Australian independent consumer watchdog.


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Michael Luscombe

Luscombe has faced pressure from Australia's consumer watchdog, the ACCC, over its practice of using planning laws to object to the construction of supermarkets by its competitors.