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...
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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...
Opportunity: Security Engineering Support – Data Rights Protocol
We’re seeking a security engineer with a passion for privacy to contract with the Digital Lab team. This is a remote consulting opportunity for a...
Operation Dog Spit
This post shares some background on the challenges of testing direct to consumer DNA products, and how we met these challenges. One of the quandaries...
Opportunity: R&D Program Support
We’re seeking a professional with great communication skills and a passion for privacy to join the Digital Lab team on a short-term contract basis....
Opportunity: Freelance Engineering Support – Permission Slip
We’re seeking a full stack software engineer with an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for privacy to provide contract engineering support to...
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...
The Uniform Law Commission privacy model bill is a disaster
The Uniform Law Commission (ULC), an organization that seeks to develop model legislation to help bring consistency and uniformity to state laws, has...
