Introducing OSIRAA, a Test Suite for the Data Rights Protocol
Today the Innovation Lab is thrilled to launch a new testing app for the Data Rights Protocol: OSIRAA v0.5. The app is available on GitHub and ready...
Category: Authorized Agent
Blog Posts
An Early Look at How Companies Handle CCPA Requests Submitted by Authorized Agents
Under state laws like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), consumers finally have a right to control what happens with their data. Under CCPA,...
Identity Verification: Why it Matters for Consumer Privacy (1 of 2)
When we get a driver’s license, start a job, open a bank account, or start some other thrilling administrative event, most of us know we need to...
Identity Verification: Flows We’ve Seen in CCPA Data Requests (2 of 2)
Identity verification is a critical part of exercising most data rights. Are you requesting a copy of your purchase history, or did an identity thief...
First End-to-End Test of Draft Data Rights Protocol Completed Successfully
Yesterday Ethyca, Incogni, and Consumer Reports’ Digital Lab successfully conducted the first live end-to-end interoperability test of the Data...
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...
A Dreamboat Authorized Agent Process
In fall 2021, Consumer Reports Digital Lab launched a study to understand more about the data rights provided to consumers under the California...
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...
Standardizing Data Rights Requests with a Common Protocol
There is no standard way to exchange data rights requests under the law today. This means consumers need to contact companies and interact with them...
Helping consumers see their data with a CCPA data access agent
Last year, Consumer Reports launched an Authorized Agent pilot to help consumers stop the sale of their data by companies. The results inspired the...
