I suggest you subscribe to Cory Doctorow's and Ed Zitron's mailing lists, those are two people that regularly write about those people and what are they up to
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Ed's got a podcast called Better Offline as well.
I tried searching “who watches google” and obviously just got advertised pages of Android Wear spy bracelets.
have you tried this on platforms other than google?
Also, to answer the question... the cops/regulatory agencies (FTC, FCC, SEC, FBI/DOJ for examples. Sometimes congress hauls them before the senate or house of reps...)
Yes, I tried Duckduckgo, but also didn't get great results. Admittedly, I could have revised my terms a few more times, but I've had good luck with things Lemmy recommends, and this doesn't really seem like a niche interest on this site.
Thanks for the recommendation on all the 3 letter agencies. I bet there are mountains of CSPAN coverage out there for me to watch.
https://themarkup.org/ maybe? At least that is what they claim to be doing.
I'm surprised I didn't think of the EFF despite donating to them before. Thank you for the links.
Wouldn’t Mozilla have a conflict of interest?
Yes, but that would just make them a biased source. Not an entirely useless one.
They mostly just provide a good summary of various companies privacy policies, for whatever that's worth 😅
This looks really interesting. I try to get stories from varied sources, but don't particularly want it "curated" for me. I'm going to add this to my rotation.
They have a Mastodon account, which is why I know about them, you might want to follow that.
This is what came up for "who watches Google"
"who keeps an eye on Google"
"who makes sure Google isn't doing bad things"
Still no answer.
You got closer than I did. I didn't mention it in the original post, but I also tried duckduckgo with little luck. I hope to god this is peak enshittification because I can imagine how it gets worse from here.
I'm getting interesting results with this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=tech+industry+watchdog
I think naming a particular tech vendor is likely to get different results compared to using generic terms.
sorry, i also didn't get anything close.
best i can do is bbb.
eff, as has been suggested, is also doing great things, but they're not specifically the watchdog.