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…
“This kind of behavioral and demographic targeting has been going on [in business] since the early 2000s,” said Jonathan Mayer, a lawyer and computer scientist…
"Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist at Stanford University, said historical records provided some evidence that the server could have been located in the…
"Jonathan Mayer, a graduate fellow at Stanford University, launched a 2011 investigation that discovered how OK Cupid appeared to sell many categories of i…
“Obviously, if it were to emerge that there had been ‘leakage' of classified information, that would make this much less a transparency and accountability c…
If Clinton used the private account for more than just unclassified discussions, that would cause national security concerns, said Brian Nussbaum, a cyber threa…
The FCC's case for Title II reclassification is a "legal slam dunk" according to Barbara van Schewick, a Stanford University law professor and net…
"Sex is a recurring theme in these sorts of attacks, says Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of Hate Crimes in Cyber…
Jonathan Mayer, a PhD candidate in computer science & law lecturer at Stanford University, said that Mrs Clinton may have told her Internet service provider…
"Right now, we have "limited technical evidence" about Clinton's email system, said Jonathan Mayer, a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at…
Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at Samford University and noted expert on the FTC, argued that a decision against the commission could harm consumers. “The FTC…
But the Internet is a difficult place to police. "The law is frankly very ill-suited to respond to that," says Woodrow Hartzog, an associate professor…
As for the politics, Barbara van Schewick, an Internet expert at Stanford Law School, offers a wildly different analysis of why Google and the others didn’t rus…