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…
"“Net neutrality doesn’t allow Internet service providers to pick winners and losers, and if we look at T-Mobile’s plan as it is now, it will clearly disto…
"“As it stands, it looks like a net-neutrality violation right now,” said Barbara van Schewick, a professor at Stanford Law School and a leading…
"CONTROVERSY OVER T-MOBILE VIDEO PLAN: T-Mobile’s plan to allow customers to watch video services like Netflix on their devices without counting the usage…
"But net neutrality advocates are skeptical about T-Mobile’s openness. “We can’t be really sure unless we know exactly what these technical requirements ar…
"Harlan Yu, who worked on the civil rights report, said the report is meant to help communities. “You know what we've been hearing from departments ac…
"The only cities to earn uniformly negative results were Atlanta and Ferguson, a city the group chose to examine in the wake of the controversy following t…
""Every department has room to improve, even the best in the nation," Harlan Yu, principal at civil rights consulting firm Upturn, told Mic. &quo…
"“This is a pretty big deal for law enforcement,” says Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford fellow in computer science and law whose research into Google’s circumven…
"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…