The 'dark patterns' at the center of FTC's lawsuit against Amazon
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…
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 Innovation Act isn't an ideal fix for the program patent system. "It's largely a measure to reform patent litigation, but it doesn't…
"Reddit’s new policy “is terrific news,” said Danielle Citron, law professor at University of Maryland and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace. Though the…
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Barbara van Schewick, an influential Stanford law professor who has written extensively on the need for strong net neutrality rules, filed 18 disclosures, the m…
""I think zero-rating is the next big threat to innovation and free speech online," says Barbara van Schewick, a professor at Stanford Law School…
"Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, adds that Reddit’s rule sets a remarkably fair…
"The ruling also shows how hard it can be for schools to balance increasingly high expectations of safety and also increasingly high standards of respect f…
"“Everyone who came to the States was anxious to link up with friends and family back home but everything was monitored,” she said in a telephone interview…
"However, multiple sources told The Huffington Post that the proposal of Clyburn's described in The Hill could actually make net neutrality rules stron…
"Barbara van Schewick, a Stanford law professor who specializes in Internet policy issues, thinks Wheeler’s proposal doesn’t go far enough. Full details of…
"Patrick Lin, director of the ethics and emerging sciences group at California Polytechnic State University, adds, “Allowing manufacturers to have variable…
"Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford who has studied the security practices of education technology startups, says he’s been horrif…