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…
"“New companies that are trying to break into the market sometimes employ aggressive marketing tactics that overpromise what the company’s technology can d…
"Annemarie Bridy, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, said nothing in the law dictates a tweet is automatically…
"“Often when you have numerous complaints saying the same thing, where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Samford Universit…
"“Some people will say, `Well, they broke the law, they hacked into this private company’s computers and stole data.’ Yeah, that’s true. But from the other…
"Stanford ethicist Patrick Lin argues that hiring contractors for Predator ISR operations also “opens the door for outsourcing drone strikes for the first…
"Last week, I came across two separate speeches that were given recently about the future of the internet -- both with very different takes and points, but…
"Prof. Frischmann, a member of the faculty at the Cardozo School of Law, wants readers to consider if automating life is making us more robotic. He writes…
""The End of the Internet Dream," cyberlawyer Jennifer Granick's keynote at Black Hat, was all anyone could talk about at this year's Def…
"A study by the New America Foundation, a centrist Washington think tank, agreed: "Surveillance of American phone metadata has had no discernible impa…
"The hype is white hot. Ford CEO Mark Fields even predicted that someone would offer a “fully autonomous” car in the next five years. Not so fast, said Br…
Jennifer Stisa Granick’s keynote address is a comprehensive and illuminating account of the past, present, and troubling future of “internet freedom.” It also r…
"Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, writes, “[T]he lack of a coherent mental model of privacy harm helps account for the…