The 'dark patterns' at the center of FTC's lawsuit against Amazon
NICKELSBURG: Experts like Andrea Matwyshyn say when that design tricks a consumer into doing something they didn't intend to, it becomes a dark pattern. She…
NICKELSBURG: Experts like Andrea Matwyshyn say when that design tricks a consumer into doing something they didn't intend to, it becomes a dark pattern. She…
Last week, we published three separate posts that looked at the FTC’s recent settlement with Aylo, the parent company of multiple adult websites including, most…
“Right now, there are real robotaxis carrying real people on real roads,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an AV researcher and professor at the University of South Ca…
"Kristen Eichensehr, an assistant professor at UCLA School of Law who specializes in cybersecurity issues, said the Europeans begin any privacy discussion…
"“The idea that they can be searched just by entering or leaving the country we are citizens of — it goes against the very thing the 4th Amendment was desi…
"“The law is clearly targeted at economic activity and is being applied to an entirely different category to suppress speech,” said Jennifer Granick, an at…
"For Narayanan, most of the blame goes to the websites who choose to run scripts like AdThink, often without realizing how invasive they truly are. “We'…
"Meanwhile, Google's Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security, said the company is working on systems that can better dete…
"“This sanctions law, which was written for one purpose,” said Jennifer Stisa Granick, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, P…
""In my experience, (the website) publishers are by-and-large unaware of the privacy-invasive behavior of the third-party scripts that they add to the…
"“Departments often justify unrestricted footage review policies by arguing that it allows officers to write more accurate reports, but in our view, these…
"The days of unfettered access to internet content are over, Riana Pfefferkorn of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society told government representati…
"With the Dec. 14 repeal, Comcast and others will be able to charge content companies exorbitant fees without, technically, blocking. This fundamentally ch…
""2017, perhaps, was a watershed year, and I predict that in the next year or two the issue is only going to continue to increase in importance,"…
"Ms Riana Pfefferkorn, Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society in the USA, argued that while governments suggest companies should live up to…