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…
"Neil M. Richards, Professor of law at Washington University School of Law, MO, explained that while the enduring values of privacy and free speech have al…
"Harlan Yu, principle with communications consultant Upturn, said that pre-report viewing -- viewing footage prior to the filing of an officer’s incident r…
"About a third of all departments do not make their policies public and readily available on the department's websites. And according to Harlan Yu, a t…
"Almost every department examined allowed officers to watch video of an incident before filing a report. This “gives officers an undue advantage over other…
"Statistician Victoria Stodden has described the unique place personal computers hold in the history of science. They’re not just an instrument – like a te…
"Ryan Calo, who led the team, called the work difficult but crucial. "We had to come up with a process to blend the technical, legal, design and other…
"Even non-lethal autonomous robots raise serious ethical question. As technology philosopher Peter Asaro told me in an email earlier this year, Google’s se…
"Assistant Professor of law Ryan Calo developed his answer from a law and policy perspective. Currently, law could find inadequacies in security of househo…
""Right now they're focusing on how to protect people and airplanes," Ryan Calo, drone expert and law professor at the University of Washingt…
"Unsurprisingly, then, Europe’s new rules have bigger loopholes than America’s, even if the law just passed is much stricter than the commission’s first pr…
""By marketing a system that does some but not all of the driving, Tesla could be setting itself up for liability first if the vehicle malfunctions, b…
"The opposition to Europe’s net neutrality regulations appears to have been organized by the same US firms that lobbied for the FCC’s Title II rules: the I…