Once again, great minds at Signal strike at the heart of impending catastrophic collapse of privacy. I love this talk from the 39th Chaos Communication Congress (December 2025) by Meredith Whittaker and Udbhav Tiwari so much. Here are my favorite things: It highlights...
Once again, great minds at Signal strike at the heart of impending catastrophic collapse of privacy. I love this talk from the 39th...
A new school year is upon us and ISL wants to remind educators and school technologists that they need to take as much care...
ISL began its life as the Me2B Alliance, striving to create standards to enable greater power symmetry in the digitally facilitated relationship between consumers (“Me-s”) and the companies whose technology they use (“B-s”). We called this the M2B relationship. For mobile apps, all too often it’s a case of “Me2 Who Knows?!” People have a right to know who’s legally responsible for the apps they use, and it is anything but clear in mobile app stores today. App stores are failing to make clear the legal entity who is responsible for apps. ISL has filed responsible disclosures with Apple starting in late 2024 but our repeated attempts have been dismissed.
Internet Safety Labs’ Executive Director Lisa LeVasseur testified before the Maine Judiciary Committee in support of LD 1822, the...
Internet Safety Labs testified in support of the Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act (H78) and Massachusetts Data Privacy Act...
At ISL we pride ourselves on being dispassionate truth-seekers when it comes to assessing risky behaviors in technology. But this...
Last week Apple default-enabled all apps (native and 3rd party) to Siri “learning”. I thought I'd wrap up with a reflection on...
In our recently published research on the worldwide web of commercial surveillance, we took a close look at the global infrastructure...
We enthusiastically welcome Liad Wagman as our newest Advisor to Internet Safety Labs.
It's cybersecurity season in Las Vegas and I'm inspired to write an overdue post on why I hate the phrase "cyber civil defense"....
Today, we are excited to announce our latest research exposing the massively networked personal information sharing happening between...
1. Background In 2022, Internet Safety Labs (ISL) conducted an extensive benchmark of EdTech apps used in schools across the United...