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Summary of Marta L. Tellado's Buyer Aware
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 A few years ago, I woke up to find that my phone had sent me a message promoting lawn furniture. I was creeped out. The internet is a black box that knows everything about me and my habits. -> The internet is a black box that knows everything about me and my habits. It can sell my information to advertisers, who can then send me ads for running shoes, cholesterol blockers, and dubious nutritional supplements. #2 The companies that harvest our personal information from us before we realize what they're doing have become incredibly wealthy because they've restricted our online choices and manipulated search engine results. #3 The companies that harvest your personal information from you before you realize what they’re doing have become incredibly wealthy because they’ve restricted your online choices and manipulated search engine results. #4 The internet is a black box that knows everything about you and your habits. It can sell your information to advertisers, who can then send you ads for running shoes, cholesterol blockers, and dubious nutritional supplements.
Buyer Aware
In an era of corporate overreach when consumers have never been more vulnerable to digital surveillance, unsafe food, and dangerously faulty products, the president and CEO of Consumer Reports gives us a playbook to put the power back in our hands. You've been getting ripped off. The rules that have protected consumers for decades are failing. Companies are spying on us. Many of the products we once trusted are dangerous and failing at alarming rates. Whether we are buying a crib, a small appliance, an iPhone app, or shopping for car insurance, it's become harder than ever to know whether the choices we make in the marketplace are putting us at risk-either from physical harm or the abuse of ...
Watchdogs and Whistleblowers
This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source of information about ways in which consumer activism has reshaped the economic and political well-being of citizens in the United States and around the world. This all-encompassing collection of information about consumer activism and the consumer movement will provide students, public officials, business groups, and other activists with a one-stop source of facts and insights. The contributors explore hundreds of major consumer protections that have significantly enhanced the quality of life and safety for all Americans, showing how these protections were won through the skillful and determined work of leading activists and activist ...
Congressional Yellow Book
A loose-leaf directory of Congress, their committees and key aides.
Washington Information Directory 2018-2019
The Washington Information Directory is the essential one-stop source for information on U.S. governmental and nongovernmental agencies and organizations. Organized topically, this thoroughly researched guide provides capsule descriptions and contact information that help users quickly and easily find the right person at the right organization. The Washington Information Directory offers three easy ways to find information: by name, by organization, and through detailed subject indexes. It focuses on the Washington metropolitan area—an organization must have an office in Washington to be listed. It also includes dozens of resource boxes on particular topics, organization charts for all federal agencies, and information about the FOIA and privacy legislation. With more than 10,000 listings and coverage of evolving presidential administration, the 2018–2019 Edition features contact information for the following: Congress and federal agencies Nongovernmental organizations Policy groups and political action committees Foundations and institutions Governors and other state officials U.S. ambassadors and foreign diplomats Congressional caucuses
Washington Information Directory 2019-2020
The Washington Information Directory is the essential one-stop source for information on U.S. governmental and nongovernmental agencies and organizations. This thoroughly researched guide provides capsule descriptions that help users quickly and easily find the right person at the right organization. The Washington Information Directory offers three easy ways to find information: by name, by organization, and through detailed subject indexes. Although it is a "directory, the volume is topically organized, and within the taxonomic structure the relevant organizations are listed not only with contact information but with a brief paragraph describing what the organization (whether government or...
Washington Information Directory 2021-2022
The Washington Information Directory (WID) is a topically organized reference resource that lists contact information for federal agencies and nongovernmental organizations in the Washington metro area along with a brief paragraph describing what each organization does related to that topic. In addition, The Washington Information Directory pulls together 55 organization charts for federal agencies, congressional resources related to each chapter topic, hotline and contact information for various specific areas of interest (from Food Safety Resources to internships in Washington), and an extensive list of active congressional caucuses and contact details.
