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, believes automated vehicles are already legal in the United States, and wrote a…
"“The real world is messy! And it’s why the most important criteria for the early deployments of automated vehicles will be location, location, location,”…
"This case is a curio of weird American history, and it’s a frustrating look at gender roles at the time. But it’s not entirely frivolous to look back at t…
"At the same time, “CALEA did not prohibit a carrier from deploying an encryption service for which it did not retain the ability to decrypt communications…
"The ruling should help in the California case because Orenstein fully supported Apple’s arguments, a company executive said on a call with reporters. The…
"University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo called the New York ruling "the first shoe to drop" among many to come. "Depending on how…
"Because of the nature of the request, the outcome of the California case is more significant than the Brooklyn case, analysts say. “It has the potential t…
""This is just one accident, and we will likely see more," said Bryant Walker Smith an assistant professor of law at the University of South Caro…
"We can’t be sure what Brieant was thinking when he ordered poor Walter killed (Brieant died in 2008), but a new legal analysis by Ryan Calo, an assistant…
“There are a lot of ways in which the debate over the past year and a half has been déjà vu all over again,” says Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at St…
"The product liability challenge embedded in connected devices, which include everything from smart coffee pots and ovens to medical devices and cars, is “…
""It's just another form of favoring one application over another," said Barbara van Schewick, a Stanford law professor. In January, she publ…