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Known as the ‘search engine that plants trees’, Ecosia has gained popularity among eco-conscious internet users since its launch in 2009.
Here we consider whether Ecosia is a good choice in comparison to industry leaders like Google and we raise questions about its relationship with Microsoft Bing.
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On Friday, 4th December 2020, Ethical Consumer made a submission to the Treasury Select Committee's inquiry into ‘Tax after Coronavirus’. Sounds like a mouthful, right? Well, don’t worry, we will explain exactly what all this means.
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The Southern Co-operative has drawn criticism from civil rights groups Big Brother Watch and Privacy International following revelations that the supermarket chain has been using live facial recognition technology in its stores.
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As part of our new campaign, we are encouraging consumers to contact big tech companies and asking them to publicly justify continued use of tax avoidance schemes in economies severely impacted by the current pandemic.
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We have drafted a letter below to help people write to their MPs to ask them to support this campaign.
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The Lush Prize is an annual award to scientists and campaigners who are working to replace animal testing. It is a collaboration between Lush Cosmetics and Ethical Consumer, and, in November of this year, it paid out £250,000 in total, with prizes awarded in a virtual ceremony.
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Our report, Shooting Wildlife III, helps birders and conservationists find binocular and other sports optics brands that don’t have links to the hunting industry or the military, while taking their environmental commitments seriously.
The report co-author Anna Clayton gives her brand recommendations, reviews the findings and laments a sector that…
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Rob Harrison explains the latest developments in Ethical Consumer’s campaign to get Big Tech companies to contribute to the pandemic affected societies in which they operate.
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Greenwashing is the misleading practice of advertising environmentally-sound campaigns, practices and products that are in contradiction with a company’s more general environmental record.
Emma Kerrison explores what greenwashing looks like in the technology industry, and investigates whether the recent climate pledges of tech giants Amazon and…
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Tom Bryson tells us more about the new Facebook boycott campaign.
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A new UK network is creating collective, national campaigns to challenge corporate power. Ethical Consumer has published research on JCB - the target of its first campaign - in support of the launch.
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Anna Clayton explores how we can make better, more inclusive, online events.
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A growing list of corporations, including some of the world’s best-known brands, have signed up to a campaign aiming to hold Facebook to account for allowing hate speech and misinformation on its platform.
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When Trump pulled out of the Paris climate agreement, the tech giants were some of his loudest critics, but are these global corporations pulling their own weight in the fight for climate justice?
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Josie Wexler and Rob Harrison focus their attention on the gross disparity between the tax paid by the big tech companies and what they can afford to pay to help out during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Extinction Rebellion UK members turned Siemens’ London office into a ‘crime scene’ on the 16 January, following its decision to continue providing railway signalling services to the Adani coal mine in Queensland, Australia.
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Web Developer, Hannah Smith, from Ethical.net tells us how she’s reducing her digital carbon footprint.
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How is Internet privacy affected by our broadband and email providers and what is the bigger picture? Ruth Strange talks to Javier Ruiz at the Open Rights Group (ORG).
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Information about our activity online has become a commodity in itself. Not only is our social network activity collected and sold to advertisers and even political campaigns, but also our Internet histories and emails.
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A new report has laid bare the extent of tax avoidance from six of the biggest US tech firms.