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Internet Safety Labs Provides Comments for COPPA Rule Review, Project No. P195404, Docket ID FTC-2024-0003
Mar 11, 2024 | Policy
Internet Safety Labs (ISL) applauds the FTC's commitment to updating COPPA regulations to safeguard children online. Regulation such...
ComScore Cross-Site Tracker Found in PBSKIDS.org
Jan 22, 2024 | Research
Updated 1/22/24 We’re happy to report that the ScorecardResearch tracker has been removed from the PBSKids.org website. We...
ISL Provides Requested Comments to NTIA for Docket NTIA-2023-0008
Nov 16, 2023 | Policy
Last month, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) requested public comment regarding docket...
Another School District Hacked
Nov 16, 2023 | Research
Two of the districts covered in our 2022 benchmark find themselves victims of recent data breaches at the hands of the same entity,...
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter Harms Wrap-up
Oct 27, 2023 | Insights
One of the things we measured in our 2022 US K12 EdTech Safety Benchmark was the presence of risky trackers within the school’s...
42 States vs. Meta: Schools are Unwitting “Pushers” – 91% of Schools Have Facebook Accounts
Oct 26, 2023 | Research
Prompted by the news of this lawsuit, we tallied how many of the schools in our 2022 EdTech benchmark had Facebook, Instagram or...
ISL Provides Comments to the FCC’s IoT Cybersecurity Label
Oct 6, 2023 | Policy
Internet Safety Labs provided our comments to the FCC’s IoT Cybersecurity label. Among the comments and recommendations we made, the...
Safe Products are NOT the Consumer’s Responsibility
Oct 5, 2023 | Insights
We’re lucky to live in the US. One of the things we routinely take for granted in our country is the general safety of virtually all...
Groundbreaking K12 EdTech Safety Benchmark from ISL Garners Press
Sep 21, 2023 | News & Press
In late 2022 and throughout 2023 ISL has published ongoing findings and data from the first of its kind US K12 EdTech Safety...
Internet Safety Labs’ New Web-Based Resource App Microscope Receives Media Attention Into Edtech Safety for K12 Students
Aug 4, 2023 | News & Press
Internet Safety Labs, a non-profit organization dedicated to independent software product-safety testing, released its newest...
Internet Safety Labs Advances Mobile App Safety for K-12 Students, Families and Educators with New App Microscope
Jul 31, 2023 | News & Press
Pierces the technology fog to show what is really going on with children’s private and personal data inside EdTech applications SAN...
The Elephant is Product Safety
Jun 1, 2023 | Insights
There’s a popular parable about five blind men touching various parts of an elephant to identify what they are unable to see. One,...