Consumer Rights
Somebody’s Watching You: The Surveillance of Self-driving Cars
Tenants Want Physical Keys and Win Settlement Against Landlords Who Want to Only Provide Smart Locks
Bars & Nightclubs Use A Secret Biometric Blacklist To Ban Customers
Amazon Installing Alexa in Apartments and Hotel Rooms. They Say 24/7 Data Collection Will Help Property Managers Better Manage and Serve Tenants.
PBS Airs 2 Segments on Cell Phone and WiFi Radiation Exposure Risks. What Does This Mean for PBS’ Sesame Street Character, “Smartie” The Smartphone?”
By B.N. Frank Thanks to Environmental Health Trust for reporting about these segments: Burt Wolf’s Travels and Traditions, which is broadcasted on PBS, aired two…
Exploding Smartphone Causes Injury Inside Moving Car with Pro Basketball Player and Friends
By B.N. Frank Activist Post and many other media sources have reported about smartphones and other “Smart” devices (see 1, 2) catching fire and/or exploding. …
iPhones Harvest and Transmit Massive Amounts of Data While You Sleep
By Tyler Durden iPhones are surprisingly active in the middle of the night, according to a report by Washington Post Technology writer, Geoffrey Fowler. Fowler tracked his…
Lots of Data Collected on People – Including You – Using “Smart” Roads and Public Transportation Systems
By B.N. Frank Activist Post has reported already about the many and increasing ways that data is being collected on all of us without our…
Google Has a Creepy Secret Page That Tracks Your (Online and Offline) Shopping History
By Dagny Taggart Google is very interested in your shopping habits – so much that the tech giant is collecting and saving your purchase history….
If Regulators Won’t Stop The Sale of Cell Phone Users’ Location Data, Consumers Must
By Aaron Mackey A Motherboard investigation revealed in January how any cellphone users’ real-time location could be obtained for $300. The pervasiveness of the practice,…
Another Congressman Asking FCC for Proof That 5G is Biologically Safe. Have Any of Yours?
By B.N. Frank The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is supposed to protect the American public by regulating the Telecom Industry. This hasn’t been happening for…
Is the U.S. Ignoring Its Own Research That Proves Cell Phone and WiFi Radiation Exposure Causes Biological Harm?
By B.N. Frank The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is not a health or environmental protection agency even though their role is to protect Americans by…
Have Consumers Already Lost the Online Privacy War?
By Chris Browning Technology has increasingly come to occupy a central role in our lives. Growing numbers of people, however, have expressed concerns over how…