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Consumers' Association calls for Y2K assurances
News The news follows research from the Consumers' Association into companies contingency planning for the Year 2000.companies were contacted anonymously about millennium bug contingency plans and customers' legal rights in the event of things going...
[January 7, 1999, 11:41]
Consumers' Association says Vauxhall site is a "rip-off"
News Vauxhall's cut-price Internet car scheme met with a bitter onslaught from the Consumers' Association Friday, which slammed the car maker's plans as a "ripoff". The Consumers' Association says Vauxhall's Net discount is not enough.
[October 15, 1999, 13:25]
Scrap Oftel, regulate Web - Consumers Association
News Like many observers, CA believes that a wider spectrum of media needs to be included in the new regulators brief, including Internet and interactive television. However, the CA fall short of calling for new laws for the regulation of the Internet.
[August 14, 1997, 8:00]
Report: Hands-free mobiles triple radiation risk
News The amount of radiation emitted by a mobile phone may be increased up to three and a half times when used with a hands-free kit, according to a study released by the Consumers' Association Thursday. A statement from the Consumers' Association says...
[November 2, 2000, 13:43]
Net to end Great British Car Rip-0ff
News Consumers fed up with spending a fortune on a new car will be able to save thousands as the Consumers' Association launches its carbusters.com Web site. As part of its Great British Car Rip-Off campaign, the Consumers' Association has set up an...
[March 29, 2000, 10:47]
Unmetered access model crumbles
News ISPs are accused of being immoral in their handling of unmetered services by customers rights organisation the Consumers' Association Tuesday. We've received a lot of complaints from consumers who have signed up for services which they expected to...
[August 8, 2000, 16:06]
AltaVista rejects unmetered, industry reacts
News The Consumers' Association Tuesday calls on ISPs to take their share of the blame for the unmetered fiasco while Oftel reveals that Friaco -- believed by industry to be the solution to the problem -- will not be available until autumn at the...
[August 22, 2000, 12:34]
Sony accused of ripping off consumers
News Sony has been criticised over the European costing of its PlayStation2 console by the Consumers' Association Tuesday. Phil Evans, senior policy advisor at the Consumers' Association, is sceptical of these claims.
[August 9, 2000, 7:03]
BT defends download limits
News The Consumers' Association has accused BT of treating its customers unfairly after the company admitted that it was throttling the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications on its BTopenworld broadband service.
[October 8, 2001, 15:00]
High Street stores fail Web test
News Leading high street stores, including WHSmith, PC World and Dixons, have been accused by the Consumers' Association of providing a significantly inferior Internet service to online-only retailers. A survey published by the Association's Computer...
[November 7, 2001, 17:24]
Which? to end e-commerce scheme
News The Consumers' Association has today announced that the Which? Paul Kitchen, head of online at Consumers' Association, said: "Since Which? logo in a bid to reassure consumers about the safety of online shopping.
[January 6, 2003, 16:15]
Hands-free mobiles 'increase normal radiation'
News Hands-free mobile equipment may actually increase the amount of radiation a user is exposed to by as much as three hundred percent, a Consumers Association (CA) report found Tuesday. Roy Brooker, one of the engineers who carried out the study, says...
[April 4, 2000, 16:02]
Internet users 'at risk' from poor Web sites
News Consumers International -- which is made up of over 250 consumer organisations including the UK's Consumer' Association -- has conducted a global survey of online content, and warns that many health, finance and price-comparison Web sites are...
[November 4, 2002, 16:12]
Hands-free: Over three times the radiation
News The amount of radiation emitted by a mobile phone can be increased up to three and a half times when using a hands-free kit according to a report released by the Consumers' Association, Thursday. A statement from the Consumers' Association says...
[November 2, 2000, 9:34]
US consumers and IT workers oppose MS breakup
News While various news reports suggest US government lawyers favour splitting up the software giant, the trade association ACT (Association for Competitive Technology) has found consumers and IT professionals oppose such a proposal.
[January 13, 2000, 16:26]
'Controlled' music copying okay - record industry group
News Australian Record Industry Association chief executive officer, Stephen Peach, told ZDNet UK sister site ZDNet Australia: "We certainly don't agree consumers should have the statutory right to simply make copies, we think that right should rest in...
[July 1, 2004, 12:10]
Health gets more clicks than porn on the Web
News As the Consumers' Association questions whether the government's flagship health hotline NHS Direct, is putting lives at risk by supplying inconsistent advice, the medical industry is concerned that patients are getting a raw deal from online...
[August 8, 2000, 13:23]
EU consumer groups, ISPs plead for net neutrality
News Over the past few days, both the European Consumers' Organisation (Beuc) and the European ISP Association (Eurispa) have pleaded for Amendment 138/46 to be passed into law, saying that cutting off broadband service would violate affected consumers...
[October 20, 2009, 14:16]
Identity fraud:The scourge of cyber business
News In a white paper detailing how consumers can prevent identity theft in cyberspace, the Software and Information Industry Association, a trade group representing more than 1,000 high-tech companies, is offering businesses specific guidance on how...
[June 16, 2000, 9:05]
Government to promote consumer confidence on Net
News A recent Consumer Association survey found 60 percent of Web surfers feared that personal information would be exploited on the Net. The Consumer Association welcomed the government plans. The White Paper -- Modern Markets: Confident Consumers...
[July 23, 1999, 11:21]
