Levine and Farid Launch New Website to Increase Safety of Children Online

  • Professor Brian Levine and University of California Berkeley Professor Hany Farid launched a new website to increase the safety of children online. The website, https://app-danger.org, is the result of a $250,000 grant from Oak Foundation. will address a basic question asked by parents worldwide: is this app safe for my child? The goal of the project is to quantitatively measure the presence of exploitation, grooming, and content inappropriate and potentially dangerous for young children on mobile apps.