October 8, 2021

Consumer Reports partners with New America’s Open Technology Institute to discuss consumer labeling systems for the digital world

On October 6th, Consumer Reports partnered with New America’s Open Technology Institute for a two-part panel exploring how successful consumer labeling systems have been used across a wide range of industries in the United States and internationally, and how emerging proposals for consumer labeling in the digital world can provide similar benefits.

The event featured CR experts Brian Ronholm, Dr. Quinta Warren, Jon Schwantes, and Digital Lab fellow Kasia Chmielinski.

Learn more about the panel discussions here. See the conversation online with #ConsumerLabels, and by following @OTI and @ConsumerReports.

Yorba Successfully Completes Data Rights Protocol Conformance Testing

The Data Rights Protocol (DRP) consortium is happy to announce that Yorba, an authorized agent (AA) and DRP consortium member, has successfully completed conformance testing of v0.9.3 of the DRP! This is a major milestone that sets the stage for the next round of testing with Permission Slip and Privacy Infrastructure Providers such as our

Houman Saberi

September 18, 2024

Challenge Accepted

Earlier this year, we created Security Planner challenge coins for our volunteers, and my inbox and Signal messages began filling up with these coins in some very creative places. Creator KC Green might want his canine character put to rest, but we’re still happy Question Hound is using Security Planner to put out fires. Consumer

Yael Grauer

August 9, 2024

Who Ya’ Gonna Call? Why IoT Companies Should Embrace Vulnerability Disclosure Programs

Several manufacturers of common consumer connected devices, including those making locks and faucets, are not taking an essential step to ensure that their products remain secure. In a survey of 75 makers of popular consumer connected devices 28 percent did not even have an easily discoverable way to report a vulnerability to the company through

Stacey Higginbotham

July 29, 2024

Photoshop of Horrors

Over the past few weeks, complaints about Adobe’s new policy terms have exploded online, with many users of Photoshop and other Adobe tools saying the revised terms (specifically Adobe’s access to users’ content as well as granting Adobe a license to users’ content) which were rolled out back in February but brought to users attention

Steve Blair

June 15, 2024

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