Independence by design, not by promise. CLARA Standards aims to be funded by foundations, individual donors, and government grants. We take no money from the tech platforms we evaluate.
We collaborate with academic and research organizations to study the real safety issues — how age assurance actually works (or doesn't), what children experience on these platforms, and what interventions can fix it. This includes developing harm taxonomies, scoring platforms on their safety practices, and building the evidence base that policy needs.
Independent safety ratings for the platforms kids actually use — built on cited evidence from platform documentation, safety organizations, regulators, and investigative reporting.
→Systematic adversarial testing of platform safety features — finding the gaps before kids do.
The binding principles that protect CLARA Standards' research from commercial pressure and funder influence.
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