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…
"Flashing someone is illegal, but the cyber equivalent isn’t, said Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, who has written a boo…
""We often see people who torment domestic partners will torment them and terrorize them with any tool they have, and that is on and offline," Un…
"Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at Samford University who specializes in privacy law, says the history of computer crime law shows that vague language ca…
"“[The technology] would give us the best of both worlds: It would take the human warfighter out of harm’s way, but it would also give robotic systems the…
"Publishers have quickly realized the power of mobile notifications in drawing people back to content, so naturally they’re at risk of overdoing it. “This…
"“Surveillance powers have a history of abuse in totalitarian societies,” Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told Salon.…
"But not everyone believes gender bias should be eliminated from the data sets. Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton,…
"“They are coming to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for promotion potential and they want to brush up on their knowledge, their professional…
"There are still no official plans for the public to test nuTonomy's vehicles in Boston. The cars will still be supervised by a "research driver,&…
"Underpinning the moves by the social media companies is a law (section 230 of the Communications Decency Act) that that gives them “a modicum of legal pro…
"Peter Asaro, a philosopher of science, technology, and media at The New School in New York City, has been working on addressing these fundamental question…
"Such is the hype. But for every tech company with its head in the clouds, there are problems to bring them back down to earth. “There are big technical ch…