Airlines Charge Billions In ‘Junk Fees’ To Boost Revenue: Senate Report
Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As millions of Americans prepare for record-setting air travel this holiday season, the Senate Permanent…
Consumer Rights
No Matter What the Bank Says, It’s YOUR Money, YOUR Data, and YOUR Choice
By Cory Doctorow The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just finalized a rule that makes it easy and safe for you to figure out…
To Fight Surveillance Pricing, We Need Privacy First
By Tori Noble Digital surveillance is ubiquitous. Corporate snoops collect information about everything we do, everywhere we go, and everyone we communicate with. Then they compile…
Smart Meters: Medscape Removes Courses Funded by Philip Morris, Time for Utility Commissions and Legislatures to Bow Too
By Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International Smart meter battles have been underway across the U.S. since the Obama administration, and many who were on the front…
T-Mobile, Amazon, and Target hit with facial recognition lawsuits
By Bianca Gonzalez More companies with household names familiar to consumers are getting hit with lawsuits for alleged violations of BIPA and New York’s Biometric…
How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can)
By Thorin Klosowski Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often…
But Why Are They Allowed to Do This to Our Food?
By George Orwell’s Ghost Nearly 99 percent of all chemicals introduced to our food here in the US since 2000 were just greenlighted for use…
Automakers Are Feeding Your Trip Data To Insurance Companies
If data exists anywhere, Technocrats will lay claim to it. It is their right, not yours. It is their lifeblood, their existence, their reason for…
Another “safe and effective” Product People Have Been Deceived into Accepting for the Last Century
By John C. A. Manley GetWokeUP.com recently published an article reporting how TV shows are being digitally remastered to cater to woke millennials. Many people…
Energy Suppliers Allowed to Re-start Forced Installation of Prepayment “Smart” Meters
By B.N. Frank Opposition to costly, privacy-invasive, and hazardous utility “smart” meters – electric, gas, and water – has been worldwide since they started being…
Energy “Smart” Meters Violate Consumers’ Right to Privacy; U.S. “Smart” Meter Data Market Projected to Reach Approx. $557M by 2026
By B.N. Frank Concerned about how your personal information and that of your family members is being collected, analyzed, shared and/or sold? Did you know…
13 States Have Data Privacy Laws. Is Yours One of Them?
By B.N. Frank “Surveillance Capitalism” is big business and not only for tech companies. Even utility providers collect data on consumers via “smart” utility meters…
Court Rules in Favor of Consumer whose “life had become hell”; Utility Must Remove “Smart” Meter
By B.N. Frank Opposition to costly, privacy-invasive, and hazardous utility “smart” meters – electric, gas, and water – has been worldwide since they started being…
State Lawmaker Introduces Legislation to Protect Utility Consumers from Mandated Time-Of-Use (TOU) Energy Plans
By B.N. Frank Most American energy consumers are NOT signing up for “Time of Use” (TOU) and “Demand Response” energy programs because of the risk…