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…
"While Internet users can choose to delete their regular cookies, Verizon Wireless users cannot delete the company’s so-called supercookies. “Verizon is n…
CIS Affiliate Scholar Ryan Calo is listed as one of the top twenty followed law professors. Read more by Ryan Whalen. * Date Published:01/24/2015 * Original…
"Woodrow N. Hartzog, a law professor who studies privacy, said that without knowing more about how private companies use the Healthcare.gov data, it’s hard…
"Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law and an expert on privacy issues, said the decision was "disappointing, but n…
“Fostering Freedom Online: the Role of Internet Intermediaries” is a new title in the UNESCO Internet freedom series. With the rise of Internet intermediaries t…
"Online black markets are likely to continue to be created and shut down. Yet this trial has also reminded us of the limits of technology. When the Interne…
"Though the proposal offers many concessions to net neutrality advocates, critics maintain that it still fails to uphold important net neutrality principle…
"The Republican bill, sponsored by Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), is "network neutrality in name only," according to the lega…
"Scott Shackelford, an assistant professor of business, law and ethics at Indiana University, says that Snowden “has a point,” and that Stuxnet, because of…
"The UK government is not giving enough consideration to privacy and freedom of the press, and the recently revealed surveillance of journalists is yet mor…
"There is some cold comfort for the little guy whose stuff is copied or stolen by the big guy: "You do get free publicity," says UC Hastings prof…
"And Danielle Citron, a law professor who has studied privacy, worries that data on people’s personalities could be stored and used in contexts they never…