Category: Authorized Agent

Reflections on Two Years of Operating an Authorized Agent Service, and Launching a Paid Upgrade

When the consumer internet was getting built back in the 1990s, privacy wasn’t part of the design. Almost by accident, the economy of the internet...

Ben Moskowitz

October 8, 2024

New Report: CR’s Who Shares Your Information with Facebook Study

Consumer Reports is delighted to announce the release of the report “Who Shares Your Information With Facebook”. The report sheds light on the...

Fengyang Lin

January 17, 2024

Meet the Permission Slip Agent who Processed 1 Million Requests

When you send a request in Permission Slip it may seem like magic – but really, there’s a whole lot going on behind the scenes. The fearless...

Tara Claesgens

January 8, 2024

How does Permission Slip work?

On October 3, Consumer Reports launched Permission Slip, an app that makes it easy to take back control of your personal data. Since then, many users...

Tara Claesgens

November 16, 2023

Understanding Consumer Privacy Priorities and Product Expectations

Understanding consumer priorities and concerns about data privacy management is essential to the success of Permission Slip, the app to take back...

Tuan-he Lee

August 24, 2023

Collaboration for Data Privacy: Reflections from the DRP’s Authorized Agent Summit

Authorized Agents play an important role in data rights. By helping consumers exercise their rights to stop selling data, access data, delete data...

Dazza Greenwood

July 19, 2023

Recommendations to Companies for their Authorized Agent Forms

Permission Slip submits thousands of requests to companies as an authorized agent every week. For many of these requests, we leverage company...

Ann Marie Carrothers

April 27, 2023

Permission Slip Nominated for Two Webbys

Permission Slip has been nominated for two Webby Awards and we need your help voting! The Webby Awards In November, we announced the soft launch...

Ginny Fahs

April 7, 2023

Releasing Data Rights Protocol Version 0.7

Today we’re releasing v0.7 of the Data Rights Protocol (DRP) technical specification. This release represents major progress towards implementing...

Ryan Rix

February 15, 2023

How We’re Thinking about the Impact of your Data Rights Requests

Managing your privacy is time-consuming. That’s the whole reason we started Permission Slip, a service to help consumers send data rights requests...

Margaret Oates

January 18, 2023

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