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…
"Yet not everyone is on the camera-covering bandwagon. Brian Pascal, a privacy expert who has worked for Stanford and Palantir Technologies says a cost-ben…
"Industry professionals warn of the economic consequences that the lack of certainty involving data sharing agreements could create. International Associat…
"But these decisions don’t necessarily mean the debate over the Fifth Amendment and fingerprint readers is all wrapped up, says Al Gidari, a technology law…
"“The fact is we have made some important progress with regard to the LGBT community; what 50 years ago was a crime is now in some states protected by anti…
"When platforms are made responsible for determining what speech is illegal, those intermediaries tend to over-remove content, out of an abundance of cauti…
"One problem, says Brian Nussbaum, a former intelligence analyst and an assistant professor of public administration at the State University of New York at…
"Studying a million websites is hard. To do it, Arvind Narayanan – who heads the Web Transparency and Accountability Project at Princeton University – buil…
"“The things we expect to happen the fastest will take the longest. It’s the things we don’t ever see coming that arrive soonest.” This sounds like a quote…
(Google Translate version) "The American philosopher Peter Asaro is one of the leaders of the global resistance against fighting robots. "Unlike huma…
""Other countries will look at this and say, 'This looks like a good idea, let's see what leverage I have to get similar agreements,'"…
"When a victim pays the ransom — typically in digital bitcoins — the thieves provide a digital key to unlock the system. Yet hackers who aren't motivat…
"“The public should have an accurate mental model of what we mean when we say artificial intelligence,” says Ryan Calo, who teaches law at University of Wa…