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…
"Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California Davis who specializes in policing and technology, told me that while police secrecy is noth…
"Many scientists worry over the reproducibility of wet-lab experiments, but data scientist Victoria Stodden's focus is on how to validate computational…
“The way privacy law largely works for consumers in the United States is through what regulators call ‘notice and choice,'” said Samford University law prof…
"Tesla is making use of so-called 'fleet learning' that will allow the technology to progress at a much faster rate, said Bryant Walker Smith, a la…
"Though controversial, Tesla’s use of such so-called fleet learning is exciting and will allow the technology to progress much faster, said Bryant Walker S…
"Cohen and Bryant Walker Smith, an autonomous-vehicle expert at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, are both comfortable with the t…
""It looks very different than it did in 2001. There are fewer big threats and more small threats," said Brian Nussbaum, an assistant professor i…
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies self-driving car regulation, called the bills “a mixed bag.” “Critic…
"When a federal civil rights case accusing a Yale professor of sexual misconduct landed on BuzzFeed reporter Katie Baker’s desk, the words that had dominat…
"Challenging the government over the scope of search warrants may seem like administrative arcana next to causes that get crowds of protesters onto the str…
"But Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who has studied the legal impact of self-driving cars, said that so…
""Liability is a poorly understood word," said Bryant Walker Smith, one of the leading experts in the legal aspects of autonomous driving. "…