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Consumer Reports & OneTrust Successfully Complete End-to-End Testing of the Data Rights Protocol in a Production Environment

Earlier this year, the Data Rights Protocol (DRP) consortium announced the release of the DRP 1.0 spec, signaling that the DRP is ready to be...

John Szinger

June 26, 2025

Meet CR’s 2025 Public Interest Tech Fellows

This summer, Consumer Reports (CR), in partnership with the Public Interest Technology (PiTech) Initiative at Cornell Tech, the Ethics, Society,...

Daniella Raposo

June 11, 2025

Agents Talking to Agents (A2A): Reshaping the Marketplace and Your Power

In previous posts, we explored the importance of loyalty in AI agents and the legal framework like the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA)...

Dazza Greenwood

May 30, 2025

AI News & Marketplace Roundup: Autonomous Shopping & the Agent Economy

In my last post, I explored AI’s growing influence, regulatory tensions, and the rise of agentic AI. Since then, that momentum has only...

Dirk Klingner

May 22, 2025

New Report: Digital Harassment, Treating Online Abuse Like Spam

In 2021, PEN America published a report, No Excuse for Abuse, mapping out the ways social media companies could better protect and support users...

Yael Grauer

May 21, 2025

My Agent Messed Up! Understanding Errors and Recourse in AI Transactions

In my previous post, I shared highlights from Stanford CodeX’s AI Agents x Law Workshop exploring how we might foster an ecosystem where AI agents...

Dazza Greenwood

May 19, 2025

Defining ‘Loyalty’ for AI Agents: Insights from the Stanford AI Agents x Law Workshop

AI agents are rapidly moving from science fiction to daily reality. These sophisticated software systems promise to manage tasks, conduct...

Dazza Greenwood

May 5, 2025

Consumer Trust, Real-World Impact, Multi-Agent Systems: Highlights from AI Agent Congress 2

Members of the AI Agent Congress gather in San Francisco, CA on March 31, 2025. This week in San Francisco, Consumer Reports (CR) joined the second...

Ginny Fahs

April 3, 2025

New Report: Many Companies May Be Ignoring Opt-Out Requests Under State Privacy Laws

Today, Consumer Reports (CR) and researchers from Wesleyan University released findings from a joint study that examines how companies are complying...