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...
1. Background In 2022, Internet Safety Labs (ISL) conducted an extensive benchmark of EdTech apps used in schools across the United...
This week, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has called for warning labels for social media platforms. If you know anything about...
Last year, Internet Safety Labs (ISL) observed that CoolMathGames.com website (from CoolMath.com, LLC [referred to as “Cool Math”], owned by Sandbox Group) contained location-based behavioral advertisements. Using the Federal Trade Commission’s guidelines on a “child-directed” website, ISL believes CoolMathGames.com may fall under the protections afforded by the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA).
ISL is pleased to announce the publication of the following research tools: Company Risk Dictionary, SDK Risk Dictionary, and ...
Internet Safety Labs (ISL) applauds the FTC's commitment to updating COPPA regulations to safeguard children online. Regulation such...
Updated 1/22/24 We’re happy to report that the ScorecardResearch tracker has been removed from the PBSKids.org website. We...
Last month, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) requested public comment regarding docket...
Two of the districts covered in our 2022 benchmark find themselves victims of recent data breaches at the hands of the same entity,...
One of the things we measured in our 2022 US K12 EdTech Safety Benchmark was the presence of risky trackers within the school’s...
Prompted by the news of this lawsuit, we tallied how many of the schools in our 2022 EdTech benchmark had Facebook, Instagram or...
Internet Safety Labs provided our comments to the FCC’s IoT Cybersecurity label. Among the comments and recommendations we made, the...
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...