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…
"“Partnerships will be the key to successfully competing on automated driving – and different companies, from automakers to suppliers to data providers to…
"That leeway has drawn criticism from academics and civil-liberties advocates. Elizabeth Joh, a University of California, Davis, law professor, said the do…
"Cyber law professor Jennifer Granick of Stanford University suggests auto-industry style liability is not appropriate for software. "While it is tru…
"The challenges are legal as well as technological. Bryant Walker Smith, a member of the legal faculty at the University of South Carolina, says that “hist…
"What happened this week won’t be lost on judges in the future should the government again try to get tech companies to build backdoor access into programs…
"“For a country that purports to be guided by democracy and guided by civil rights, this is a very dangerous and very slippery slope,” said Malkia Cyril, t…
"Meanwhile, threats of similar – or perhaps worse – attacks have continued to surface. “This was not the big one. This was a precursor of a far worse attac…
"Arvind Narayanan, assistant professor in computer science at Princeton said, “We have a situation where these artificial intelligence systems may be perpe…
"Matwyshyn believes there needs to be space for innovation, but if not everyone has the same access to technology, it raises a lot of questions. “That’s a…
"According to Daphne Keller, a lawyer at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University, the Austrian ruling may be "dangerous and short-s…
"It is inevitable Amazon and others would add a visual component to smart speakers to better monetize them, said Albert Gidari, director for privacy at Sta…
"“Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian Speech Tradition” is the title of a forthcoming article in the Stanford Law R…