Dark Patterns Tip Line: Share Your Experiences with Manipulative Design
Every day, we’re exploited for profit through dark patterns: design tactics used in websites and apps to persuade you into doing things you...
Blog Posts
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Introducing the Dark Patterns Tip Line
Today, we’re thrilled to launch the Dark Patterns Tip Line, a website that allows consumers to share manipulative designs they encounter online....
Measuring and Protecting Consumer IoT Privacy at Scale: Smart Speakers
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are increasingly found in homes, providing useful functionality and convenience, such as smart speakers, TVs, and...
The Data Nutrition Project: Healthy Data for Better Algorithms
As a product manager, I spend a lot of time poking around technology. Recently, I was experimenting with a particular algorithm and became curious...
Scaling Up Consumer Protection Research on Online Advertising
It is well known that digital ads violate privacy, yet we know little about their content. Digital ads are of increasingly low-quality, and often...
Understanding the Android Open Source Project Supply Chain
Hi, I’m Julien Gamba, a PhD student at the IMDEA Networks Institute in Madrid (Spain). I am officially kicking off my project as a Digital Lab...
New Open Source Project Automates Data Deletion Requests by Email
Although the CCPA is supposed to make it easy for California residents to opt out of companies sharing or selling their data, it hasn’t all been...
Lab notes: April 2021
Join our Digital Lab Fellows for a virtual roundtable Join us to hear from some of the brightest minds working in the digital rights space...
CR Members Share Their Experiences with Food Delivery Apps
In August, 2020, Consumer Reports (CR) investigated fee transparency with food delivery apps. We inspected four of the most widely used online food...
Calling all public interest tech researchers!
Are you passionate about privacy, security, or digital rights? Do you work on consumer protection research or new methods to study the digital world?...
Research
2024
Data Defense, Evaluating People-Search Site Removal Services
CR Vulnerability Disclosures, Video Doorbells
2023
Who Shares Your Information with Facebook? Sampling the Surveillance Economy in 2023
P2P Payment Apps: A Case Study for a Digital Finance Standard
2022
Broadband Pricing: What Consumer Reports Learned From 22,000 Internet Bills
2021
Credit Not Due: The Limitations of Popular Credit Score Apps
The State of Authorized Agent Opt-Outs Under the California Consumer Privacy Act
Effects of Varying Education Level and Job Status on Online Auto Insurance Price Quotes
Evaluating the Privacy Practices of Mental Health Apps
2000
California Consumer Privacy Act: Are Consumers' Digital Rights Protected?
Collecting #Receipts: Food Delivery Apps & Fee Transparency
White Papers
2024
2024 Consumer Cyber Readiness
2023
2023 Consumer Cyber Readiness
A Raw Deal for US Consumers: Online platforms will make changes to better serve European Consumers but not US Consumers
Future of Memory Safety: Challenges and Recommendations
2022
Consumer Cyber Readiness
Opening Black Boxes: Addressing Legal Barriers to Public Interest Algorithmic Auditing
2021
The Case for Fair Market Rules for the Largest Online Platforms
2020
Platform Perceptions: Consumer Attitudes on Competition and Fairness in Online Platforms
Privacy Front and Center
2000
Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: The Law Must Protect Consumers’ Genetic Privacy
Understanding the Scope of Data Collection by Major Technology Platforms
The Evolution of Consumer Attitudes Toward Online Tracking, 1995-2019
Survey Data
2019
Privacy Risk Benefit Survey
Data Privacy Habits Survey
Social Media Survey
2018
Privacy Control vs. Ownership Survey
Social Media Survey
Medical Privacy Survey
Social Media and Privacy Survey
2017
Net Neutrality Survey
Privacy and Net Neutrality Survey
Government and Consumer Issues Survey
2015
