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…
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"McGill University professor Shaheen Shariff, an expert on the legal and policy aspects of cyber-bullying, noted that the case comes to light after a wave…
"Were Follett to take legal action, it would have a high bar to clear says Andrew Bridges, a partner at Fenwick and West who specializes in copyright law.…
"University of South Carolina law professor Bryant Walker Smith pointed out that the technology has the potential to reduce incidents of certain types of a…
""There's a common misconception that all speech is equally protected by the First Amendment," Hartzog said. "That's simply not true…
"Net neutrality created what the Stanford scholar Barbara van Schewick calls “an architecture for permissionless innovation”." * Date Published:11/2…
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who studies drones, said the troublemaking should come as no surprise. “It would be the rare t…
"“It’s part of what I think is going to be the next biggest fight that we see on surveillance as everyone starts to implement encryption,” said Jennifer Gr…
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"‘'We usually think of freedom of speech as enhancing liberty, but this is speech that takes away someone else’s liberty,'’ said Danielle Citron, a…