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…
"Regulators around the world, be it the FCC or TRAI, are grappling with the issue of Differential Pricing (Zero Rating is a special case of it) and whether…
"27. Intuitively, the case-by-case approach may seem reasonable. However, this approach creates substantial social costs as noted by Barbara Van Schewick i…
"“If left unchecked, Binge On leads us down a slippery slope,” Stanford Law School professor Barbara van Schewick wrote in the study. “More and more (inter…
"Stanford Law professor Barbara van Schewick argues that in a paper on T-Mobile’s BingeOn and Music Freedom programs that regardless of its intentions, T-M…
"Stanford Law professor Barbara van Schewick argues that in a paper on T-Mobile’s BingeOn and Music Freedom programs that regardless of its intentions, T-M…
"And zero-rating programs also give broadband providers an incentive to further tilt the market in favor of their own services or those of preferred partne…
"T-Mobile has critics, including Barbara van Schewick, a law professor who directs Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. She recently wrote a lengthy…
"Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University and author of “Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age,” said he think…
"Beth Van Schaack, a visiting human rights professor at Stanford Law during the 2014-15 school year, said during a panel discussion in January that the Isl…
"Stanford Law School professor Barbara van Schewick in a paper published Jan. 29, concluded Binge On “violates key net neutrality principles and harms user…
"The T-Mobile US Binge On video service does in fact break network neutrality and so is illegal. That's according to Stanford law professor Barbara va…
"“Soon it will be feasible and affordable for the government to record, store and analyze nearly everything we do,” writes law professor Elizabeth Joh in H…