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…
"Dr. Richard Forno from the University of Maryland concedes, “there is no international agreement over what level of cyber warfare is acceptable.” He furth…
“This vote is among the greatest public-interest victories in U.S. history,” says Barbara van Schewick, who is faculty director of Stanford University’s Center…
""The State Department definitely has some work to do," said Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer affiliated with Stanford Law School&…
"“I'm worried that there could be some unanticipated, emergent phenomenon,” says Calo. “For instance, maybe it'll turn out that lots and lots of pe…
""Make the ethics programming in an autonomous car transparent in order to set expectations with users and society, and be able to defend those progra…
"Digg CEO McLaughlin, who also is a lawyer and former director of public policy at Google, blasted the European court’s “irrelevant” and “inadequate” stand…
"Ryan Calo, an assistant law professor at the University of Washington and co-director of the school's Tech Policy Lab, told Mashable said this is an &…
"Stanford computer researcher Jonathan Mayer pushed back at the notion that Clinton used a “homebrew” email system, and said it clearly had “nontrivial sec…
“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…