Reflections on Two Years of Operating an Authorized Agent Service, and Launching a Paid Upgrade

(cross-posted here: https://innovation.consumerreports.org/reflections-on-two-years-of-operating-an-authorized-agent-service-and-launching-a-paid-upgrade/) When the consumer internet was getting built back in the 1990s, privacy wasn’t part of the design. Almost by accident, the economy of the internet built up around trafficking user data, which Ethan Zuckerman describes as the internet’s…