Why "Safety"? How We Use Measurement to Advance Governance of Technology
summary
Internet Safety Labs presents an independent 501(c)(3) product-safety testing approach that reframes privacy work as safety and builds measurable standards: developed rubrics, risk dictionaries, and data-collection pipelines feeding a nutrition-style app safety label surfaced in App Microscope. Methodology combines human exploratory testing with calibrated scoring and aims to scale toward automation; results already cover over a thousand apps and drive comparable, quantifiable signals for schools and regulators.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Internet Safety Labs intro
- 1:13Privacy vs safety politics
- 3:43Safety as accountability
- 6:12Safety as adversarial process
- 8:42Safety as honest framing
- 10:49Product safety governance
- 12:13Scaling safety labels
- 14:18Deciding what to measure and quantify
- 15:43Automating safety testing
- 17:30Safety as measurable responsibility
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