Data Rights Protocol and Global Privacy Control Consumer Reports’ Digital Lab recently announced the Data Rights Protocol (DRP), a cross-sector initiative that seeks to standardize data rights... Sebastian Zimmeck January 13, 2022
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... Bill Fitzgerald January 12, 2022
Lab Notes: December 2021 CR investigates impact of Amazon’s rapidly expanding warehouse network across the U.S. CR’s recent investigation uncovered the disproportionate... Ben Moskowitz December 30, 2021
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.... Consumer Reports December 14, 2021
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... Consumer Reports December 14, 2021
Consumer Reports’ Digital Lab Evaluates the Security and Privacy of VPNs Running on Windows 10 As a tech journalist, I’ve been looking into VPNs for a long time. When I joined Consumer Reports full-time in January, I was excited about digging... Yael Grauer December 7, 2021
Lab Notes: November 2021 CR applauds bipartisan investment in America’s broadband future The President has signed the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which includes... Ben Moskowitz November 30, 2021
An Analysis of Broadband ISP Practices With contributions from Jonathan Schwantes, Senior Policy Counsel, Consumer Reports Over the past 18 months the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically,... Debasmita Das November 15, 2021
Lab Notes: October 2021 CR’s Digital Lab is working to make it easier to exercise your data rights CR is working with privacy infrastructure companies to develop... Ben Moskowitz October 27, 2021
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... Dazza Greenwood October 25, 2021