Buyer Aware: Harnessing Our Consumer Power for a Safe, Fair, and Transparent Marketplace

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Marta Tellado

Buyer Aware

Harnessing Our Consumer Power for a Safe, Fair, and Transparent Marketplace

Marta Tellado

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Public Affairs
20 September 2022

Domestic trade; Market research; Food manufacturing & related industries; Impact of science & technology on society

In an era of deregulation when consumers have never been more vulnerable to corporate surveillance, unsafe food, and dangerously faulty products, the president and CEO of Consumer Reports gives us a playbook to put the power back in our hands.

You've been getting ripped off.

The rules that have protected consumers for decades are failing. Companies are spying on us. Many of the products we once trusted are dangerous and failing at alarming rates. Whether we are buying a crib, a small appliance, an iPhone app, or shopping for car insurance, it's become harder than ever to know whether the choices we make in the marketplace are putting us at risk-either from physical harm or the abuse of our personal data by hackers or corporations.

This is intolerable. It's wrong. And we don't have to put up with it anymore. Marta L. Tellado, the president and CEO of Consumer Reports, has been an advocate for consumers for decades. In Buyer Aware, Tellado shows you the steps you can take to protect yourself from predatory business practices, and how to exert your inherent power as a consumer to spur politicians and businesses to clean up their act. Only then can we ensure that we have an economy that is fair, safe, and transparent for all, and puts consumers first.

By: Marta Tellado
Imprint: Public Affairs
Edition: Library Edition
ISBN: 9781668623152
ISBN 10: 1668623153
Publication Date: 20 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

Marta Tellado is the President and CEO of Consumer Reports, America's foremost consumer organization that advances truth, transparency, and fairness in the marketplace. In 2019, she led the creation of a Digital Lab to develop new ways to test and report on digital products and services-from connected thermostats, to cars that collect data on their drivers, to online platforms such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook. She also created Consumer Reports' Digital Standard, an open source set of benchmarks that can be used by companies and organizations to design digital products that are respectful of consumers' digital rights.

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Tellado's book shows how empowering consumers to become advocates is critical to prompting policymakers to pass reforms we need. -- Amy Klobuchar, US Senator