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…
"But even if enough people opted in to the system and chose to faithfully report their own infections and comply with self-isolation, plans like Google-App…
"AmeriCorps has no cyber-specific component though, and Scott Shackelford, cybersecurity program chair at Indiana University-Bloomington and Cyber Peace Fo…
""People need to be confident that the software on their phones is behaving as advertised," Marshall Erwin, senior director of Trust & Securi…
"As it stands, the effort could pose Constitutional issues, said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington. "If you are going to be e…
"Digital contact tracing is no substitute for human health care workers and medical testing, cautions Margaret Hu, an associate professor at Washington and…
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, labeled the bill a “sneak ban on…
""If this becomes a mechanism to move more and more of the internet toward one single set of rules, that's a real loss," said Daphne Keller,…
I spoke with Ryan Calo, a professor of law at the University of Washington who studies emerging tech and policy. He said it’s good that people are thinking crea…
"And there are many reasons to be skeptical of such a system, said Jennifer Granick, the ACLU’s surveillance and cybersecurity counsel. Tracking technology…
"Arvind Narayanan, who leads Princeton’s Web Transparency and Accountability Project, had heard chatter about Zoom for some time, but it was only when the…
Catherine Crump is the director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley, where she researches the impact of new technology on c…
“It could be constantly telling you that you’re at risk when actually the risk was very low,” says Ryan Calo, an associate professor at the University of Washin…