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…
"And, as Bryant Walker Smith of the University of South Carolina School of Law points out, police will still be in charge of stepping in during altercation…
"One of Vosen's first priorities will be to become well-versed with the technology in the autonomous vehicle that Google is creating, says Bryant Walke…
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""It raises a lot of concern about the increased weaponization of robots that the police use," said Peter Asaro, a co-founder of the Internationa…
"“The approval of Privacy Shield, an arrangement facilitating commercial data flows between the EU and U.S., concludes a process set off by the Snowden rev…
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor who studies driverless cars at the University of South Carolina, said the difficulty with a system like Tesla’s is th…
"“There doesn’t seem to be any limit to what can be captured and what can be shared,” said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School’s Cent…
"“We use the predator drone to target people overseas, and now we see the police force using a [robot] to target someone in a US city, and that catches peo…
"According to University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo, the situation doesn’t give rise to any new legal issues, but is unsettling for a different…
"“It is essentially a jury-rigged version of a drone strike,” Ryan Calo, a University of Washington School of Law professor specializing in cyber and robot…
"Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California at Davis, who specializes in surveillance and technology issues, said she thought the Dalla…
"Today we learned the Dallas police used a bomb disposal robot to deliver and detonate an explosion, killing the suspect in last night's shooting. It w…