$50k fellowships for critical technologists

Become a Consumer Reports Digital Lab Fellow!

In world of morally compromised technology and markets, a few entities stand out as consistently on the side of right. Consumer Reports is one of them.

For 85 years, they have produced rigorous, unbiased, trustworthy accounts of the manufactured goods in our lives.

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.

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/

These are paid ($50k!) one-year fellowships “ of interest to engineers, computer scientists, information security professionals, independent researchers, academics, social scientists, and others.”

Fellows work with CR’s reporters and advocates, get access to its lab facilities, and work with its…