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FTC's McSweeny Tweets Thumbs-Up to Consumer Reports' Cybersecurity Efforts

FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny gave a belated shoutout to Consumer Reports in a Tuesday tweet for its cybersecurity efforts with The Digital Standard, announced last week. “Agree -- a step forward in providing consumers with better information & reviews re…

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data privacy and security of #IoT,” McSweeny tweeted. “Thanks @ConsumerReports for starting to take this on!” CR announced the standard Feb. 7, an effort with Disconnect, Ranking Digital Rights, The Cyber Independent Testing Lab and nonprofit tech organization Aspiration, with a goal of helping set expectations for how connected product manufacturers should handle privacy and security (see 1802070046).