This isn’t a recent change, but the implementation choices by Apple surprised us. In iOS apps, location permission defaults to precise location unless the developer takes pains to change the default location precision to kCLLocationAccuracyReduced and we all know the...
This isn’t a recent change, but the implementation choices by Apple surprised us. In iOS apps, location permission defaults to...
You probably haven't looked lately, but if you did, you'd know that twitter[.]co is no longer owned by Twitter, er, X. The domain sat...
In 2025, in light of the US TikTok ban, ISL conducted an investigation into TikTok and the inherent privacy and safety risks in the...
A new school year is upon us and ISL wants to remind educators and school technologists that they need to take as much care...
In our recently published research on the worldwide web of commercial surveillance, we took a close look at the global infrastructure...
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...
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 ...
Updated 1/22/24 We’re happy to report that the ScorecardResearch tracker has been removed from the PBSKids.org website. We...
Two of the districts covered in our 2022 benchmark find themselves victims of recent data breaches at the hands of the same entity,...
Prompted by the news of this lawsuit, we tallied how many of the schools in our 2022 EdTech benchmark had Facebook, Instagram or...