California is a major center of new privacy law and regulation, creating opportunities for internet safety advocates to help design policies that will ripple out well beyond the state’s borders. Their Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), passed by ballot proposition in 2020,...
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Measuring the Ethical Behavior of Technology [VIDEO]
This session will share the results and learnings of the creation and development of an ethical "yardstick" for respectful technology, including its application to websites and mobile apps. The speakers will also explore learnings from everyday people in the...
Me2B or Me2Who Knows: App Stores Fail to Provide Clear Legally Responsible Party
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.
Do SDKs Represent Actual Network Traffic in EdTech Apps?
1. Background In 2022, Internet Safety Labs (ISL) conducted an extensive benchmark of EdTech apps used in schools across the United States. We sampled 13 schools in each state and the District of Colombia and identified 1,722 unique apps which were in use In K12...
Why Location Data Brokers Put All Communities At Risk
In our continued effort to educate people about the risks from data brokers this blog post provides a list of authoritative news stories and research about a specific type of data broker that creates unique risks for people and communities: location data brokers. ...
Three Turns of the Wheel – Building a Software Safety Spec for the Digital World
Version 1.0 of the Me2B Safe Specification for Mobile Apps and Websites is now available. It was three years in the making, and this is how we got here.
Flash Guide #1: What is the Me2B Alliance: A Safe Software Standard for the Internet
The Me2B Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit creating a safe and just digital world through standards development and independent technology testing. We are a new type of Standards Developing Organization (SDO) – involving everyday people in creating the standard for safe and respectful technology. We also perform independent testing and audits of connected technology, like websites and mobile apps.
Spotlight Report #1: School Mobile Apps Student Data Sharing Behavior
Open PDF Research Performed by: Zach Edwards and Lisa LeVasseur Written by: Lisa LeVasseur, Zach Edwards, Karina Alexanyan Contributors: Eve Maler, Shaun Spalding, Andrea Ausland This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike...