Rethinking technology governance

Lisa LeVasseur

03 Sep 2025

Creating this site to foster discussion around reframing our current fragmented approach to "technology governance" as "digital product safety", based on a body of work done at Internet Safety Labs (https://internetsafetylabs.org) as well as my work during the 2024-25 Harvard Technology & Human Rights Fellowship. The work introduces new ways to talk about, measure, assess, and seek accountability for hazards and harms in digital products.

I hope to cultivate a lively combination of philosophical and practical topics of discussion.

Come on in, the water's fine!

Surely, you jest

I'm almost embarrassed to admit this but I have not yet read Infinite Jest. I'm currently listening to the audiobook, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself (2010) by David Lipsky, from his 5 days spent with David Foster Wallace at the very end of

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This is Product Safety for the Information Age, a brand new site by Lisa LeVasseur that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when

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Surely, you jest

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