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…
"While the legal treatment of online harassment differs from country to country, such incidents point to a growing and broader awareness among the public a…
"“We’re losing some of the granularity between car and driver that we’ve had in other contexts,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and computer sci…
"Revenge porn is a relatively new, yet extremely contentious topic. The act of violating someone's privacy in this manner, exposing their most intimate…
""This is the next evolution of political suppression," said Richard Forno, assistant director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Ce…
"“Many small companies don’t read these things carefully,” Albert Gidari, a prominent national security attorney who worked on many cases involving such le…
"“[Social networks] can censor more or less anything they want and it also have incredible abilities to leave up as much as they wants to leave up,” said R…
"One reason that differential privacy hasn’t been adopted more widely is that it is difficult to get right. “It’s not quite something you can deploy in a p…
"But proponents of tough security on consumer devices, such as Riana Pfefferkorn, cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, say…
"If BuzzFeed reporters are having trouble getting records, they can turn to Nabiha Syed, the company's assistant general counsel. She often handles the…
"Shouting down web-based terrorist recruiting cells, that’s a good thing, said Ryan Calo, professor of law at the University of Washington and co-director…
"Controversy has followed T-Mobile's Binge On since launch, with many, including Stanford lawyer Barbara van Schewick, stating that the program violate…
"This decision is huge for the FCC's authority," said Marvin Ammori, a longtime net-neutrality advocate. "We won big on everything." Tha…