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A.I. Is Going Rogue. Who Should Be Held Responsible?
Many think artificial intelligence companies should be held liable for their runaway technology. But legal scholars say applying existing law could be messy. .…
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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…
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 431: The Many Problems With The FTC’s Pornhub Settlement
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…
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Founder of Google’s Stealthy Surgical Robotics Project Speaks
"Other robotics experts are not so sure. Ryan Calo is a law professor at the University of Washington, and teaches a class on Robotic Law and Policy. “The…
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The 4 worst patents of 2015
"To give just a sense of just how out of touch the law has become, I askedDaniel Nazer, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to highlight t…
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Net-Neutrality Proponents Warn of Loopholes
"“If this isn’t addressed…it will send the signal that this kind of behavior is OK, and I think that will encourage other [Internet-access providers] to st…
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Will Fear Change the Internet? Self-Policing Has Already Started
""The Internet is moving away from a place where anyone can say anything and find any information they want," Jennifer Granick, director of Civil…
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Ease of hiding terror plots online intensifies Web debate
"Because their livelihoods depend on it, technology companies are developing more secure encryption, which safeguards the lawful and unlawful alike, said B…
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Buy Buy Privacy
Planning to do some online holiday shopping? LSA Ph.D. student Darren Stevenson explains how advertisers get and use your personal data to predict what you’ll b…
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Barack Obama appeals to Silicon Valley for help with online anti-extremist campaign
"“If there’s a broad trend, it’s that companies have become more willing to take things down that are somehow involved in terrorist recruitment or propagan…
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Privacy and the Internet
"If Google rejects a request for removal of a link, the requestor can appeal to his or her country’s regulators or the courts, Keller says. “But there’s no…
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Prison Telecom Giant Securus Awarded Patent for Billing Inmate's Relatives
"“There’s this perverse thing where sometimes the more obvious a thing is, the harder it is to prove it’s been awarded a patent improperly because it’s so…
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Breaking Down Cox's Trial Over Subscriber Music Piracy
"Annemarie Bridy, a University of Idaho law professor and affiliate scholar at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, co-wrote a law pr…
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Judiciary chairman wants warrant exception in email privacy bill
""It unfortunately appears to be the case that some law enforcement officials make emergency disclosure requests because it is easier than getting leg…
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Lawmakers take up government's ability to get old emails without a search warrant
"Google's law enforcement director, Richard Salgado, told lawmakers that provisions under the old law "do not reflect the reasonable expectations…