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In world of morally compromised technology and markets, a few entities stand out as consistently on the side of right. @ConsumerReports is one of them.
For 85 years, they have produced rigorous, unbiased, trustworthy accounts of the manufactured goods in our lives.
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For 85 years, they have produced rigorous, unbiased, trustworthy accounts of the manufactured goods in our lives.
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As good as they are at this, understanding digital technology requires significant changes, as software-based devices (especially those that interact with remote services) are difficult to evaluate in the lab, since their characteristics can be silently altered at any time.
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CR rose to this challenge with a series of excellent, in-depth cybersecurity breakdowns of products and services, but it's still early days.
Enter the CR Digital Lab, with nonresidential fellowships "to uncover and address emerging consumer harms."
https://digital-lab.consumerreports.org/join/
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Enter the CR Digital Lab, with nonresidential fellowships "to uncover and address emerging consumer harms."
https://digital-lab.consumerreports.org/join/
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These are paid ($50k!) one-year fellowships " of interest to engineers, computer scientists, information security professionals, independent researchers, academics, social scientists, and others."
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Fellows work with CR's reporters and advocates, get access to its lab facilities, and work with its wide-ranging network of public-interest technologists.
You have until May 21 to apply.
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You have until May 21 to apply.
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ETA - If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on http://pluralistic.net , my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/07/pro-act-class-war/#help-wanted
https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/07/pro-act-class-war/#help-wanted
