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…
"“The ethics are different for humans and machines,” says Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.…
"“Americans don’t think the trade-off of their data for personalized services is a fair deal,” said Omer Tene, VP of research for the International Associa…
"Opponents of revenge porn cheered the decision. “We’ve been talking to Google for all these years,” said Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of…
"University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron, an expert in online harassment and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, applauded the move. The sear…
"Dr Patrick Lin, director of ethics at California Polytechnic State University, wrote in 2014 that developing such a system "seems an awful lot like a…
"Cybersecurity experts also note that this legislation would do little, if anything, to thwart data breaches. "I'm not aware of a single computer…
""Data about reproductive health is very sensitive, but there are situations where maybe you want someone to know that," said Harlan Yu, principa…
""Seeing the video tape of someone having sex is very different from journalists writing about it," Danielle Citron, author of the book Hate Crim…
"“There’s no accountability, and in an anything-goes environment, there are no social norms on how to slow down harassing speech,” says Danielle Citron, a…
"Taken together, those measures could amount to a new backdoor for government surveillance, according to some experts. The revelation earlier this month th…
"Gawker could have told the story and described the video (as it did, in great detail, which you can still read, even though the video has been taken down…
""The Silicon Valley style is to move forward with the cool technology," said Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of the Center for Technology, Inn…