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Why we went to the United Nations to protect digital consumers
Wired bookCI believes that the UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection have much potential to help restore the balance between the interests of consumers and copyright holders that has been upset with...
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Diverse International coalition launches alternative process to secretive...
Fair Deal Coalition logoThe Fair Deal Coalition has launched a new initiative that will give Internet users a platform to discuss what copyright should look like under the TPP. The Coalition’s ‘Your...
View ArticleMore than a hundred global groups make a principled stand against surveillance
For some time now there has been a need to update understandings of existing human rights law to reflect modern surveillance technologies and techniques. Nothing could demonstrate the urgency of this...
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Consumers and counterfeits
Jeremy MalcolmTough IP laws, such as those that the United States is seeking to introduce through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), are often justified as necessary to fight counterfeiting and...
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Consumer Council of Fiji launches broadband campaign, seeks disclosure...
The Consumer Council on 9th September 2013 launched its Campaign for Broadband Nutrition Labeling, aimed at getting internet service providers (ISPs) to be truthful in the information they provide to...
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Six-month paid internship at CI working on WCRD
Your deskNext year's World Consumer Rights Day on March 15 will be on the topic "Consumers in the Digital Age". We are announcing an opportunity for a six-month internship at CI, joining our team in...
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W3C's credibility rocked by the failure of "Do Not Track" and its embrace of...
The W3C's tracking preference working group has been seeking to develop a specification for a standard called "Do Not Track" or DNT. The concept behind this standard (which I've written about in detail...
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Media Coverage - Consumer Council of Fiji Broadband Nutrition Labelling...
A feature article that appeared on page 2 of Fiji's leading newspaper The Fiji Times on 7th October 2013 highlight the broadband disclosure statement that the Consumer Council of Fiji is campaigning...
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Public Safety Codes of the World: Stand Up For Safety!
Support this project on KickstarterLane Rasberry works for Consumer Reports, the United States member of Consumers International, but this post is his personal opinion and not a statement of Consumer...
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Consumers were right to be worried, but can the TPP be redeemed?
TPP video screenshotThis week's leak of a recent version of the intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) has sparked much outrage over the maximalist copyright and...
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Time for open standards for online payments?
Bitcoin safe by btckeychainThe online ecosystem has fostered enormous technological innovation, yet for the most part the payment systems that we rely upon to send money around the world are a curious...
View ArticleIs free Internet data worth the cost?
Earlier this month, US phone and Internet giant AT&T announced its new Sponsored Data service, that would allow mobile customers to access certain sponsored websites or services, free of data...
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WCRD 2014: How consumers are tricked into joining high cost 'text clubs'
As we head toward World Consumer Rights Day on March 15, Boštjan Okorn, head of testing and technology expert at Slovene Consumers' Association (ZPS – Zveza Potrošnikov Slovenije), explains how...
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WCRD 2014: The unfair practice of mobile phone locking
In our latest WCRD 2014 blog, Conchy Martin Rey, Director for International Relations of Spanish CI Member CECU, explains why mobile phone locking is unfair. en lire plus
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Lawmakers call for the release of the TPP text to enable public scrutiny and...
TPP video screenshotPoliticians from nine countries around the pacific rim have signed a joint statement published today by the global NGO’s Oxfam and Article 19, the statement calls for the release of...
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WCRD 2014: Mobile complaints surging in Singapore
Amy Ang, Deputy Head (Legal) of Consumers Association of Singapore, reports on the growing numbers of complaints among mobile consumers as we approach the phone rights themed World Consumer Rights...
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WCRD 2014: CI Member helping to protect consumers from Mali mobile rip offs
Coulibaly Salimata Diarra explains how CI Member, Mali-based ASCOMA, is combatting top-up card mobile phone promotions which leave consumers short changed. en lire plus
View ArticleWCRD 2014 (Fiji): Proposed Consumer Code of Practice regulations suddenly...
The Telecommunications Authority of Fiji (TAF) has suddently resurrected the consultation process towards the establishment of what it calls a Consumer Code of Practice Regulations "to define consumers...
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WCRD 2014: Fiji's largest mobile provider acknowledges problems
WCRD heat is on in Fiji. Vodafone Fiji's CEO Aslam Khan has agreed with the Consumer Council of Fiji that there are issues and problems in the mobile phone sector. Consumer Council's Facebook page has...
View ArticleLKY campaigns to expose telecommunications abuses in Indonesia The Indonesian...
The Indonesian Cellular Telecommunications Association reported that the mobile subscribers in Indonesia already reached 250 million in 2011. This number exceeds the 240-million Indonesian population...
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