Internet Safety Labs’ Executive Director Lisa LeVasseur testified before the Maine Judiciary Committee in support of LD 1822, the Maine Online Data Privacy Act, while highlighting concerns. Informed by ISL’s 2022 K-12 Edtech safety benchmark and ongoing research, our...
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...
Internet Safety Labs (ISL) applauds the FTC's commitment to updating COPPA regulations to safeguard children online. Regulation such...
Last month, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) requested public comment regarding docket...
Internet Safety Labs provided our comments to the FCC’s IoT Cybersecurity label. Among the comments and recommendations we made, the...
Our first application of the ISL Consumer Safety Scorecard for Regulation is for the California Consumer Privacy Act regulations recently proposed by the CPPA. It was a bit unusual to apply the scorecard to rulemaking—and not to the entire regulation—but we hope you’ll find it helpful.
Unveiling a more efficient and practical way to evaluate proposed regulations. The ISL Consumer Safety Scorecard for Regulation compares the text of proposed regulations against our “must have” regulation safety principles to arrive at an overall ISL safety score for the regulation.
On May 19, 2022, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) revealed that they are “committed to ensuring that educational technology tools...
California is a major center of new privacy law and regulation, creating opportunities for internet safety advocates to help design...
The Me2B Alliance is thrilled to see a Privacy Expert and Advocate assume the role of FTC Commissioner. Bedoya is well known for his...
This is a story of a politician who cried “hacker” after a reporter informed a state agency that sensitive information was embedded in their website’s HTML source code. While we wish this was a joke or fictional story it, unfortunately, is not. This real-world example underscores the notion that there is a real need for Policymakers to understand how technology works and behaves.
Many policymakers have been interested in protecting children’s privacy and expanding COPPA. Recently, Me2BA alongside a coalition of advocacy groups endorsed Representative Castor’s Kids PRIVCY ACT. We’re proud to support this bill, but we urge members in Congress to address non-profit carve outs in data privacy laws.