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…
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina and an expert in automotive safety and regulation, said Honda could make an argum…
"So what now? It was unfortunate that the chat bot was deployed under the Microsoft brand name, with Tay’s Twitter responses seeming to come from Tay, not…
""By allowing pre-report viewing, statements from officers will always appear more accurate and more credible than other witnesses statements, which w…
"“We can't cherry-pick the costs or savings to focus on,” says Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic…
"Barbara van Schewick, a professor and researcher from Stanford, published a study directly challenging T-Mobile's zero-rated program, causing it of &q…
"At least 34 people are reported dead after a series of blasts at Zaventem International airport and Maelbeek metro station in Brussels on Tuesday. The at…
"Critics like the EFF and Stanford Professor Barbara van Schewick argue that the program violates net neutrality by putting some companies (and now some po…
"Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said that these new government decryption capabilities…
"Paradoxically, the human factor is also cited by those in favor of the development of lethal autonomous weapons. "Robots aren't scared," Ste…
"Key principles include keeping customer data on their devices - rather than in the cloud, on Apple servers - and isolating various types of data so they c…
""It is an astonishing thing really," said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford law school's Center for Internet and Society. "…
""This might be more akin to requiring the person who makes the door to remove the hinges so you can knock the door down," said Riana Pfefferkorn…