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…
""For practical reasons, the security bypass this court would order Apple to create almost certainly will be used on other iPhones in the future,"…
"Last month, a story written in the Sarawak Report - one such publication hosted on Medium - alleged corruption involving the Malaysian prime minister. Af…
""This is a very important decision," Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor, said of the Brooklyn ruling. "Other courts, even…
"Security experts are not happy about the FBI's proposal to break security on an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino attack. Today, seven of those expe…
"A laundry list of past and present iPhone experts and cryptography experts today filed an amicus brief asking the courts to vacate their order mandating A…
"Unlike AT&T and Verizon, T-Mobile doesn’t charge companies to allow users access to zero-rated data. But that hasn’t exempted it from controversy. Sta…
"However, Bryant Walker Smith, a risk, technology and mobility expert at Stanford University and assistant professor in both law and engineering at the Uni…
"Duo Security, a cloud-based trusted access provider protecting the world's largest and fastest-growing companies, today announces winners for its Wome…
"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…