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…
"Using AI to identify ethnicity “seems more likely to harm than help,” says Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton University who has…
"“I feel like the evolution of GIFCT is a real illustration of just how slippery terms like platform responsibility or platform accountability turn out to…
"The lanes would be helpful for the current state of autonomous vehicles, which still cannot operate safely with human-driven vehicles under all traffic an…
"“Even assuming the lower court finds a good cause, it is not enough that the defendant wants the discovery when a federal law bars it and there are other…
"“Often when measures are introduced for a specific purpose, they linger on because people become acclimated,” said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the Unive…
"“As soon as there’s some complexity or some resistance by the system, the automation is unable to handle it,” says Ryan Calo, a law professor at the Unive…
""Since the Golden State killer case kind of exploded, we've seen there are risks to law enforcement authorities wanting to have access to that da…
"Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, has written about tools like Fawkes as “privacy protests,” where individuals want t…
"With any internet platform, “we should be concerned about the risk that sensitive private data will be funneled to abusive governments, including our own,…
“I think consumers come up short here when it comes to research uses and there is little to be done to their relief under current law,” wrote Albert Gidari — Co…
"“We vigorously protect the privacy of our users while supporting the important work of law enforcement,” Richard Salgado, Google’s director of law enforce…
"A law is being pushed through in great haste and “with a hot needle,” said Thomas Lohninger, head of the network policy NGO ‘epicenter.works’ in an interv…