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On Authorized Agents: Recommendations to California Privacy Regulators from Consumer Reports

From The Consumer Reports Digital Lab Team (digitallab@cr.consumer.org). Who should read this? This writing is aimed at California regulators, the CA...

Margaret Oates

April 4, 2022

Giant Internet Platforms are Failing Us – We Need Fair Market Rules

The pursuit of profits might work as an organizing principle for an individual corporation, but it cannot be the basis to set market rules Over the...

Sumit Sharma

April 4, 2022

Lab Notes: March 2022

Tech giants are pushing for weak privacy laws across the country As privacy legislation has stalled in Congress, giant tech companies...

Ben Moskowitz

March 31, 2022

Three Speculative Futures for Consumer Data

Image by Iris Lei for Popular Science How might we change the way our data is used so that we, as consumers, have more choice in building our future?...

Ginny Fahs

March 17, 2022

Findings from helping 104 consumers access their own data from companies

“Cyber Specialists” by Khahn Tran is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Companies collect and store a lot of data about us. Aren’t you curious...

Margaret Oates

February 28, 2022

Lab Notes: February 2022

CR joins consortium to improve consumers’ cybersecurity CR recently joined the newly-formed Nonprofit Cyber Coalition, a first-of-its-kind alliance...

Ben Moskowitz

February 28, 2022

Improving IoT Inspector (Part 1)

I’m Danny Y. Huang, an Assistant Professor at the Center for Cyber Security at New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Recently, I was...

Danny Y. Huang

February 22, 2022

Consumer Reports Finds Risky Permissions, Security Concerns In All Five Printer Manufacturers

CR Urges Companies to Improve Products to Protect Printer Security on Local Networks While office printer security has been a topic of concern for...

Yael Grauer

February 22, 2022

Lab Notes: January 2022

CR praises bipartisan vote to advance the American Innovation and Choice Online Act The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance a bipartisan...

Ben Moskowitz

January 27, 2022