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…
""Security tools like PGP encryption are most effective when they are used widely," said CPJ Internet Advocacy Coordinator Geoffrey King. "F…
""The court doesn't answer the question, whether if you know there is a substantial likelihood you're scaring the living daylights out of some…
"It might be a valuable function to discover that a company's secret information has been disclosed, but it's harder to make a case for what to do…
"Stanford legal scholar Jennifer Granick wrote before Sunday’s vote that the Senate shouldn’t rush to pass the Freedom Act as is. It “was negotiated at a t…
"“The American people have learned the hard way to be skeptical of such scare-mongering,” said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Un…
"Unfortunately, consumers don't have a lot of options for evaluating the security of dating services, according to Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist…
"University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo says, "There is very little in American privacy law today that really restricts the use of drones by…
"Because one thing we can’t overlook is that drones at the border can be invaluable. “Let’s not have a failure of imagination of how useful these things ar…
""The information they got may or may not be useful directly, but it could help a bad guy get more clues about a person's identity," he said.…
"For the first time, in March, an autonomous car drove itself from San Francisco to New York City. How is that even legal? That’s the kind of question Brya…
"That still gives the design a lot of scope as an urban taxi, says Bryant Walker Smith, an expert on autonomous vehicles at the University of South Carolin…
"“It shows how ineffective secret proceedings are for interpreting law,” said Jennifer Granick, a Stanford law lecturer and civil liberties director at the…