CR Fellow: Designing Consent & Personalization in AI Systems
Personalized AI advisors and AI agents are rapidly becoming a reality for consumers. These AI systems have the potential to make the marketplace more...
Category: Authorized Agent
Blog Posts
Prototyping Consumer‑Authorized Agents: Submitting Feedback
This summer Consumer Reports (CR) started prototyping against a set of defined use cases for consumer-authorized AI agents. The use cases spell out a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...