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…
"Ask Andrew Bridges about government efforts to crack down on websites that post copyrighted material or to enlist Internet companies as copyright enforcer…
Read the entire press release here. SAN FRANCISCO, June 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Black Hat, the world's leading family of information security events…
"The N.S.A.’s activities run “smack into law enforcement land,” said Jonathan Mayer, a cybersecurity scholar at Stanford Law School who has researched priv…
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington specializing in cyber law and robotics, believes that moral machines will have a deeply unsettl…
""It implicitly suggests that threats online are no different [than threats made via other interstate communication methods]," Danielle Citron, a…
"Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, had a similar observation, saying that the court did send a c…
"“I don’t see a privacy problem with leveraging cell towers,” says Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, where he teaches a class on…
"“Whether the NSA can restart this bulk collection is a novel question, and this decision should not be made in secret. The Fisa court should appoint an am…
""The problem is this 'mushy middle' of automation, where the human is disengaged enough to be really distracted but still have to perform som…
"It’s a decision which, according to Danielle Citron, a professor of law at University of Maryland and author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, upends…
"David Levine, a law professor at Elon University, suggests that company executives work with IT staff to spot irregular computer use, which can flag thing…
"“This shows that there’s a really serious lack of consensus as to what the government surveils in our name, and what we really want as Americans,” Granick…