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…
“It is up to Congress to legislate this issue,” added Albert Gidari, privacy director at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. “I expect we will see propo…
"Cases in which prosecutors have signaled interest in the Apple tool, or one like it, continue to pile up. In Manhattan, for instance, the district attorne…
""We should be concerned about automated vehicles," says Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies the techno…
"The legal system has been wrestling with what robots can and can’t do for longer than you might think. A new paper by Ryan Calo, a law professor at the Un…
"“What happens with any new technology is that we deploy them, and don’t lock them down properly until things go wrong,” says Ryan Calo, an assistant profe…
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is an international coalition of 59 groups, including Human Rights Watch and the Nobel Women’s Committee. Spokesman Peter As…
"Rather than contempt, Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said Apple could incur daily penalties if…
""This is one of the harder questions that we will ever have to deal with," said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School's…
"“The government is making the argument that the past is prologue” even though technology has changed, said Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of the Center…
"Do machines have rights? It's a classic question in science fiction, but we've reached a point where the question can be hammered out in actual ca…
"Robots. Are they people, too? Science fiction has long consider the legal rights of artificially intelligent beings. But as robots become an increasing p…
""The devil is in the details, and once you go deeper, you discover these weird legal details you never would have guessed," says Bryant Walker S…