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- Intellectual Property Rights — Take the Consumer Survey
Consumers Union, and the over 220 member organizations of Consumers International (CI), believes that it is in the interest of all consumers to have unhampered and inclusive access to knowledge. To this end, we are helping CI gather information to pinpoint the barriers consumers face when they access knowledge resources such as educational materials, software, films and music. By completing the six questions on the CI access barriers survey, you can help us to understand how consumers view and interact with copyrighted materials.
Blog Posts
- Center for Media Justice: AT&T-T-Mobile Deal Not Good for Communities of Color and Poor
The Center for Media Justice has just issued a new report that says AT&T’s proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile will not be good for communities of color or the poor. You can read the report here.
- AT&T Letter About T-Mobile Purchase Posted on FCC Website Causes Stir
The blogoshere has been buzzing about AT&T and its recent letter to the FCC regarding its merger with T-Mobile. The letter offers details about a meeting between company executives and lawyers and FCC officials. The letter was posted on the FCC’s web site for a few hours before being pulled and replaced by a different Continue Reading
- Facebook Needs To Do More To Protect Its Youngest Users
Facebook needs to be doing more to help protect minors using its service, according to a letter sent to the company’s top executive by Consumers Union. Consumers Union is the publisher of this blog. The letter is based on a just-released annual survey by Consumer Reports on the State of the Net. Projections from Continue Reading
- Pair of Proposed Bills Would Help Protect Consumer Online Privacy
A pair of online privacy bills recently introduced in the Senate would go a long way in protecting consumers when they use the Internet. One of the bills – called the “Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2011” and introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia – would give consumers a simple, easy means to control Continue Reading
- Live Report from Senate Hearing on AT&T-T-Mobile Deal
Chris Morran from the Consumerist — one of our cousin blogs here at Consumers Union — was at today’s Senate hearing on AT&T’s proposed takeover of T-Mobile. Click here to see his report. And click here to see written testimony submitted by Parul Desai of Consumers Union.
- A Few Minutes With FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps recently sat down with The Consumerist — this blog’s cousin blog here at Consumers Union — to talk about AT&T’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile and other topics. “You take a merger like Comcast, NBC/U or AT&T and T-Mobile and these are paradigm-changing transactions,” Copps told The Consumerist. “They have an Continue Reading
- Some Perspective: Lots of New Information on AT&T’s Proposed Purchase of T-Mobile
Consumers Union and Consumer Reports have done a lot of digging on AT&T’s proposed purchase of T-Mobile in the past week, and it’s been hard to find much of anything positive to report for consumers. Consumers Union sent a letter to members of Congress earlier this week highlighting some new research from our colleagues at Continue Reading
- Blogging to You Live from the National Conference for Media Reform
Good morning everyone. We are blogging for you live from the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston. We’re just getting started on the session we are co-sponsoring called “Mobile Phones, Mobile Justice.” Things are cranking up now and we will be your eyes and ears here for the next three hours. Here we go…. Continue Reading
- HearUsNow.org Will be Live Blogging from NCMR
HearUsNow.org is heading up to Boston this weekend and will be live blogging from the 2011 National Conference for Media Reform. If you can’t be there, we hope you will follow the action on our blog. We will be focusing on a panel we are co-sponsoring on Saturday morning titled “Mobile Voices, Mobile Justice: A Continue Reading
- New FCC Makes Consumer Issues its First Order of Business
A newly-enpanled Federal Communications Commission wasted no time in getting busy on a bevy of important consumer issues at its first meeting on Thursday.
Stop SOPA: Who decides that a website is “rogue”?
Supporters of the controversial piracy proposals now before Congress (known in shorthand as SOPA and PIPA) say all the fuss is misplaced because they only want to stop "rogue" sites that promote piracy. While piracy is a problem, defining a "rogue" website becomes an even greater problem.
America's favorite web services could be swept into an onslaught of pointless litigation. Don't let Congress infringe our access to a robust and free internet
