(2020-03-07) Hon S08e06 Back On The Wagon

Dan Hon s08e06: Back on the wagon. The Consumer Reports (for the Brits, the equivalent of Which?) has a Digital Lab, which just launched a set of paid, non-resident fellowships to “study the effects of connected products and services”. The post also references The Digital Standard, “an ambitious, open, and collaborative effort to create a digital privacy and security standard to help guide the future design of consumer software, digital platforms and services, and Internet-connected products.”

This is interesting because Consumer Reports is one of the still-trusted but, I’d say, old guard of trusted, independent consumer information

I see Consumer Reports’ work as a reflection and a (late?) recognition that software has been eating the world. When The Verge reviews a phone like Apple’s iPhone 11, they’re now calling attention to the terms of service that apply, in a section called Agree to Continue. That’s been rolled out to all their reviews