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Thursday, December 27, 2007
The Coalition for a Safe & Healthy Connecticut and its national allies
have released the results of testing 1,200 of the most popular children's
toys for toxic chemicals.
You can see the results on its website:
http://www.healthytoys.org
It was developed to better inform consumers about toy purchases, and to
encourage parents to urge the government to take action. Check out two
other websites on toxic toys:
www.protect-our-kids.org Fixya (Fix it for Free) WebWatch (by Consumer Reports) Alliance for Retired Americans About the AARP.
get rid of credit card "gotchas" (www.creditcardreform.org
an initiative of Consumer Reports.) Although the FDA has been dysfunctional, your
right to sue is limited. It's another win for Corporations in the
Republican war against people.
protect the privacy of my financial
information (www.financialprivacynow.org)
What's the price of
loyalty
cards ?
Nolo law resource for the non-lawyer.
Electronic Privacy Information Center The recording industry is anxious
to impose DRM (Digital Rights Management) on a number of
products.
Record companies have put 'root kits' on consumers computers to enforce copy
protection on audio products they sell...and also opening security holes for
computers involved. Newer mass information storage devices may never be fully
functional for consumers as a result of industry paranoia.
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns has details. Please support the Defective By
Design in its efforts to control DRM, to keep software free,
to limit software patents, and to open hardware so that it
cannot be used for rigged voting machines or for consumer surveillance.
Companies like Diebold should be producing products that are completely
transparent. Microsoft, since it has
just bought a Linux company (SUSE), will be aiming to
enforce its patents on the Linux community soon
Computer hardware has been increasingly
defective by design: or Web Site Watch Dog: stopbadware.org/
Joe Stiglitz discusses trade protected intellectual property rights (TRIPs) in
his book: Making Globalization Work. Clearly, there are serious consumer issues
involved, mostly ignored in the mainstream media.
A related site
http://www.publicknowledge.org/
Quo Warranto.com (look for a lawyer) reduce the cost and improve the quality of
telecommunications services (www.hearusnow.org) ;Soft Drinks and Watching Flea Markets for Terrorists.
Privacy Issues
DRM