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…
"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…
"A faculty member who frequently publishes and presents on complex issues related to intellectual property, privacy, technology and information flow has be…
"“We can imagine a series of market-rational decisions that produce a society we really don’t want,” says Neil Richards, an expert on privacy issues and a…
"Ryan Singel, a fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society and a former reporter at Wired, agrees that it’s hard to imagine the Google…
""The vote to repeal net neutrality is easily the most unpopular decision the FCC has ever made," said Malkia Cyril, a civil rights activist and…
" I pose the question to Stanford’s Gidari: Would you use this app in a crisis? He doesn’t take long to answer in the negative. “This is a poor substitute…
"Harlan Yu is executive director of Upturn, a nonprofit research organization focused on technology and public policy. He said viewing the body camera foot…
"Even if Fort Collins’s network succeeds, it’s not likely to send Comcast scrambling to revamp the way it treats customers or content. The future of the fr…
"Barbara van Schewick, a Stanford law professor, said she expects the FCC’s order to be overturned in the courts. “Today’s vote is a stain on the FCC,” va…