October 8, 2021

Consumer Reports partners with New America’s Open Technology Institute to discuss consumer labeling systems for the digital world

On October 6th, Consumer Reports partnered with New America’s Open Technology Institute for a two-part panel exploring how successful consumer labeling systems have been used across a wide range of industries in the United States and internationally, and how emerging proposals for consumer labeling in the digital world can provide similar benefits.

The event featured CR experts Brian Ronholm, Dr. Quinta Warren, Jon Schwantes, and Digital Lab fellow Kasia Chmielinski.

Learn more about the panel discussions here. See the conversation online with #ConsumerLabels, and by following @OTI and @ConsumerReports.

How Secure is your Security Camera? Unveiling the Risks of RTP Video Streams

Many connected cameras, video doorbells or surveillance systems have been found to contain security flaws.The implications of these flaws vary from data exposure (such as broadcasting user data – like IP address, email addresses, username and password combinations in an unencrypted manner) to those that could allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to the video

Steve Blair

April 10, 2024

CR’s Security Planner Featured on CISA’s High-Risk Communities Webpage

Security Planner is pleased to be included in CISA’s High-Risk Communities webpage, which launched today as the product of a year-long collaborative effort led by the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC). The goal of the effort is to detect, prevent, and mitigate harmful cyber activity targeting high-risk communities, including journalists, activists, non-profit organizations, and under-resourced

Yael Grauer

April 2, 2024

How We’re Testing the Data Rights Protocol

If you read our last blog post, you’ll know that the Innovation Lab spent much of 2023 engaging with other consortium members to test the Data Rights Protocol (DRP). This post covers the what and the why behind various flavors of testing: conformance, integration, and interoperability testing. Testing the Data Rights Protocol requires the involvement

Houman Saberi

March 12, 2024

Introducing Security Planner 3.0

We’re thrilled to announce the official launch of Security Planner 3.0, a complete redesign and rebuild of Security Planner. Security Planner continues to provide personalized recommendations and expert advice to help you secure your data and devices. The redesign incorporates recommendations from three comprehensive UX studies to make the tool easier to use. This update

Yael Grauer

March 4, 2024

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