Our households, communities, nation, and world are experiencing rapid change in a way we’ve never seen before.
Tips, tools and rules to confidently navigate the online world with your kids.
In depth reports on challenging online safety issues, laws and regulations.
Upcoming FOSI conferences, forums, roundtables and more.
On November 18th, we’ll be hosting the premier online safety event of 2024 – live and virtual!
This year’s event, “Building Resilience,” will cover the many changing elements of online life, for ourselves, our families, and our world. The inherent obstacles and vast benefits of the digital world ...
By now, a good number of us have settled into a new normal of remote work. Our homes have melded into offices, schools and summer camps, and we’re using the web to do more than ever before.
First, can we all just take a moment to appreciate what we have been through AND what we are still living through? Parenting before was really, really hard. Right now…. Well, I don’t even think I could adequately put it into words.
This whitepaper aims to connect the emerging technological phenomena of artificial intelligence (AI) and its implications with key actions needed to advance a culture of responsibility online.
Testimony of Stephen Balkam, CEO and Founder of Family Online Safety Institute, before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary - July 9, 2024
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and its corresponding Rule were passed in 1998, before Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube, or Hello Barbie were even conceived. Despite the Rule having been updated there have been calls to alter the way that children’s privacy is regulated in the United States. This white paper explores the implications of the current regime and potential areas of improvement.