Permission Slip recognized as Fast Company’s Next Big Things In Tech
Last week, Consumer Reports was one of three organizations honored by Fast Company for delivering the next big things in tech for 2023. The award...
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Blog Posts
How does Permission Slip work?
On October 3, Consumer Reports launched Permission Slip, an app that makes it easy to take back control of your personal data. Since then, many users...
CR named a Finalist for A Shorty Impact Award!
We are proud to announce that Consumer Reports was named a Finalist for the 8th Annual Shorty Impact Awards, an international awards program...
A Common Guidance on Passwords
On World More Than A Password Day, November 10, 2023, we at Consumer Reports, join Nonprofit Cyber on a common guidance specifying simple...
Milestone: One Million Data Rights Requests Initiated in Permission Slip
Last week we introduced Permission Slip to the world. We were delighted to see coverage in the Washington Post, New York Post, Gizmodo, CNET,...
Announcing a Stable Version of the Data Rights Protocol
We just marked a significant milestone in the development of the Data Rights Protocol: the release of v0.9. This is the first stable version of the...
CR at SXSW 2024: We Need Your Vote!
Community voting for SXSW 2024 is in full swing through August 20 The annual South by Southwest (SXSW) conference has opened its doors to the power...
Collaboration for Data Privacy: Reflections from the DRP’s Authorized Agent Summit
Authorized Agents play an important role in data rights. By helping consumers exercise their rights to stop selling data, access data, delete data...
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...
Consumer Reports Announces 2023 Fellow Cohort
We’re pleased to announce six public interest technology Fellows working with CR this summer. Three fellows are being onboarded as part of our IoT...