Online Child Safety

Policy Brief: Age Restrictions and Online Safety

While often well-intentioned, policies requiring age checks create risks for people’s privacy, security, and access to an open Internet. 

The Risks Far Outweigh the Goals

Read the remarks from Natalie Campbell's testimony at Canada’s Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on Bill...

Dangerous US Supreme Court Decision for Online Privacy and Security

Texas’ mandatory age verification law, ruled constitutional by the US Supreme Court last week, risks the privacy, security, and...

Encryption Is a Preventative Tool that Protects Children

Encryption is one of the best tools we have to help keep children safe online. Child safety and encryption...

Nevada Wants to Reduce Online Protections for Children: All Internet Users Should Benefit from Strong Encryption

Protect children online by supporting end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger. Join us in the fight against weakening online protection...

Keeping Kids Safe Online: Navigating the New Parents’ Guide to Encryption

Do you know how you're keeping your kids safe online? Using encryption, there are simple changes you can make...

Encryption, Bad Bills, and Ripple Effects: How Riana Pfefferkorn Protects the Internet

We spoke with Riana Pfefferkorn, research scholar at the Stanford Internet Observatory, about encryption and protecting the Internet.

Encryption Keeps Kids Safe Online

Policymakers are proposing laws that will weaken encryption. The EARN IT Act, STOP CSAM Act, and many other proposed...

A Safer Internet Starts with More Encryption

Security is crucial to a safer Internet, and the only way towards a safer Internet is to take encryption off...

Don’t Make Parents Raise Kids in a World without Encryption

Natalie Campbell, Director of Public Advocacy at the Internet Society and a mother of two, warns against banning or...

Don’t Forget Cybersecurity on Your Back-to-School List

This opinion piece was originally published in Dark Reading. School systems don’t seem like attractive targets, but they house lots...

Open Letter Opposing EARN IT Bill