Initiative Status: Graduated

Led by researcher Stephanie Nguyen, the Dark Patterns Tip Line allows participants to upload a screenshot and description of a deceptive design they encountered online, along with information about how they were harmed.

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Graduated

Free Food

Free Food, led by Hacker-in-Residence Noah Levenson, is a decentralized system and open protocol for aggregated local e-commerce, with a specific focus on restaurants.

Free Food enables restaurants to effortlessly self-organize as a geosearchable marketplace. Using the Free Food protocol, a hungry person can search for nearby restaurants, browse menus, and place an order with one click — without paying fees to a centralized middleman, transacting directly with small businesses.

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Graduated

The Digital Standard

How can we evaluate the privacy and security of connected products?

CR led the development of the Digital Standard, a framework to evaluate how technologies respect consumers' interests. The Digital Standard was built openly and strives to represent the expert consensus of consumer protection organizations and public interest technology researchers. It is now used by a wide range of organizations and product teams to enable comparative evaluations of connected products and services.

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Kasia Chmielinski

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

Data Nutrition Project

“As an academic working on research project its a pleasure to see a project used by CR to produce resources for the public”

Roya Ensafi

Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

VPNalyzer

"It’s been great working on a new technology and receiving support from CR to build a framework for consumers to approach cryptocurrency platforms more safely."

Ruby Thelot

Parsons School of Design

A Cryptocurrency Exchange

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