23andMe is struggling, and its CEO Anne Wojcicki has muttered about taking the company private. 23andMe wields DNA data for more than 15 million customers. With the company up for sale, this highly sensitive data is on the brink of changing hands. 23andMe’s privacy policy stipulates, “If we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition,

Today we are launching AskCR, an experimental chatbot that helps people get to CR’s trusted information faster.    True to its name, you can ask AskCR any question you have about a product category or a specific model. AskCR will get back to you with a plain language answer and links to relevant CR articles. AskCR’s

We live in a world where information is free, but that doesn’t mean information is good. Trusted information — about products specifically — has been our raison d’être at Consumer Reports since our founding in 1936. In the 1930s advertising was exploding for the first time, and there wasn’t much quality information to help Americans

Last week, Consumer Reports was one of three organizations honored by Fast Company for delivering the next big things in tech for 2023. The award spotlighted CR’s work to help people exercise their digital privacy rights by creating Permission Slip, an app that makes people aware of their data rights and streamlines the process of