PubCitizenBlog: Google lobby & transparency; Warren wants auto loans under CFPB; SEC; Privacy
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Google's Massive Lobbying Needs to be More Transparent
by Lisa Gilbert, director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_28235381/lisa-gilbert-googles-massive-lobbying-needs-be-more
Sen. Warren Aims to Bring Auto Loans Under CFPB Oversight
by Scott Michelman, attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group
http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2015/06/sen-warren-aims-to-bring-auto-loans-under-cfpb-oversight.html
Disconnect on Display: Google Shareholders Pressure the Data-Collection Giant to be More Transparent at Annual Meeting
by Kelly Ngo, online organizer for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division
http://www.citizenvox.org/2015/06/03/disconnect-on-display-google-shareholders-pressure-the-data-collection-giant-to-be-more-transparent-at-annual-meeting/
Mary Jo Wait
by Bartlett Naylor, financial policy advocate for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division
In the age of Big Data, corporate America knows a lot about us—our buying habits, where we travel, even our mental health. But ask Corporate America a simple junior high-level question in long division related to CEO compensation and some of these companies freeze like awkward teens at the sock hop.
Unfortunately, Chair Mary Jo White over at the Securities and Exchange Commission appears to buy this feigned incompetence when it comes to pay disclosure. Congress mandated that her agency require that publicly traded companies disclose the CEO’s pay as a ratio to the median paid employee at the firm, or in other words, what is the difference between the average worker and the boss. It’s been more than 700 days since she became chair on April 10, 2013 and inherited this question, but so far Chair White has been Chair Wait.
http://www.citizenvox.org/2015/06/02/mary-jo-wait/
Historic Changes in Privacy Law
by Scott Michelman, attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group
http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2015/06/historic-changes-in-privacy-law.html
