First End-to-End Test of Data Rights Protocol v0.8 Completed Successfully
On June 22, Transcend and Consumer Reports’ Innovation Lab successfully conducted the first live end-to-end test of Data Rights Protocol v0.8. This...
Category: Privacy
Blog Posts
Introducing Permission Slip, the app to take back control of your data
Privacy is a right. This is a fact in many states, and it’s one of our fervent beliefs at Consumer Reports. But that doesn’t mean privacy is...
Identity Verification: Why it matters for consumer privacy (1 of 2)
When we get a driver’s license, start a job, open a bank account, or start some other thrilling administrative event, most of us know we need to...
Identity verification: flows we’ve seen in CCPA data requests (2 of 2)
Identity verification is a critical part of exercising most data rights. Are you requesting a copy of your purchase history, or did an identity thief...
Opportunity: Security Engineering Support – Data Rights Protocol
We’re seeking a security engineer with a passion for privacy to contract with the Digital Lab team. This is a remote consulting opportunity for a...
Designing a privacy policy for a privacy app
Image courtesy of Afsal and OpenIDEO’s Cybersecurity Visuals Challenge Consumers have privacy rights under the law, but it can be pretty hard to...
Operation Dog Spit
This post shares some background on the challenges of testing direct to consumer DNA products, and how we met these challenges. One of the quandaries...
Opportunity: R&D Program Support
We’re seeking a professional with great communication skills and a passion for privacy to join the Digital Lab team on a short-term contract basis....
Opportunity: Freelance Engineering Support – Permission Slip
We’re seeking a full stack software engineer with an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for privacy to provide contract engineering support to...
Watch CR’s Data Rights Roundtable co-hosted with the MIT Media Lab
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...
