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…
"Musk prefers the ask for forgiveness, rather than permission, approach. “It is a way of changing facts on the ground, and that’s what Tesla, and more disr…
""This announcement is exciting because it's full of potential," said Bryant Walker Smith, professor at the University of South Carolina Scho…
"Like the bomb robot, such a product would raise fundamental questions about police use of force, said Elizabeth Joh, a professor at the University of Cali…
"Science philosopher Peter Asaro presented the now de rigueur assessment of lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS), and the ethical and moral nightmares therein.…
"“At some point they will flip a switch and the world will look different,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina w…
""Discovering that Geofeedia was not only being used by social media sites to help police spy on activists of color was disturbing enough," said…
"“We have to ask the question: ‘What are you doing with all that data?’,” says Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice. “We don’t know—that’s part of…
"“We mean for that to happen. This premeditation is the difference between manslaughter and murder, a much more serious offense,” wrote Patrick Lin, direct…
""This problem," said Bryant Walker Smith, one of the leading experts in the legal aspects of autonomous driving, "has been dangerously hype…
"“At every protest, we assume we’re being spied on, because we know we are,” said Malkia Cyril, the executive director of the Center for Media Justice acti…
"“It’s a vehicle for us to explain issues that have been ignored by mainstream media,” said Malkia Cyril. A Black Lives Matter activist in Oakland, she’s t…
""The use of various forms of (hacking) . . . are more invasive than other searches because they often have unknown, widespread, and sometimes destruc…