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…
"Danielle Citron, a professor the Boston University School of Law, has long argued that Section 230 should not be a “free pass,” but rather contingent on c…
"12:45pm: Professor van Schewick: There is no Net Neutrality left at the federal level in the US. I don’t think any of you is looking at the current US sys…
""This is the full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption we've been fearing would come, but which no lawmaker previously had dared to put forth,&q…
"Daphne Keller, director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center Program on Platform Regulation, agreed with the value of allowing companies to form their own…
""Requiring the ability to intercept and get unencrypted data "on the wire" in real time does basically mean this is the outright ban on end…
"Barbara van Schewick, Stanford law professor, argued in her filing that regulation should make clear that TMPs should be as “application agnostic” as poss…
"“The devil will be in the details of implementation,” Jen King, the director of consumer privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society,…
"Jonathan Mayer, a science professor at Princeton University, told TechCrunch that BlueKai is one of the leading systems for linking data. “If you have th…
"“Every platform can have a right to its own editorial policy up until the point where they're the only platform, or close enough to being the only pla…
"There are skeptics of wearable devices. Ryan Calo, an associate professor of law at the University of Washington, looks at these high-tech privacy issues…
"My primary worry about corporate information-gathering on individuals has always been about governments' ability to access the information the compani…
"The DOJ proposals "would seriously curtail platforms' ability to moderate content and respond quickly to emerging problems — like new kinds of ab…