Blog posts by Dazza Greenwood

Authorized Agents play an important role in data rights. By helping consumers exercise their rights to stop selling data, access data, delete data and more, they bridge the gap between individuals and the complex industry side of data privacy.  As part of Consumer Reports’ ongoing effort to develop common approaches to managing consumer data rights

Since we started our work on the Data Rights Protocol (DRP), companies that need to comply with privacy laws have regularly reached out asking what the protocol can do for their business. There are numerous benefits to businesses that choose to adopt the DRP: it’s an efficient, cost-effective, and reliable solution for managing the ever-growing number of

As we approach the end of the year, we’re excited to share some updates on the progress of the Data Rights Protocol (DRP) initiative in 2022. This year we released version 0.6 of the protocol and mapped out both conformance testing and interoperability roadmaps to reach version 1.0. Our latest release includes updates to the

Yesterday Ethyca, Incogni, and Consumer Reports’ Digital Lab successfully conducted the first live end-to-end interoperability test of the Data Rights Protocol. The Data Rights Protocol (DRP) is a technical standard for exchanging data rights requests under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). First announced at an MIT Media Lab in October 2021, the protocol is

On October 19th, Consumer Reports co-hosted a virtual Data Rights Roundtable with MIT Media Lab to discuss an early draft of a data rights protocol that will create a standard method for consumers to exchange data requests with companies. You can view this virtual event here. We are inviting public review of our work to

There is no standard way to exchange data rights requests under the law today. This means consumers need to contact companies and interact with them one by one to meaningfully control their data. Frequently consumers are asked to surface different types of information about themselves in these interactions with companies, which they say is dissatisfying