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…
"Stanford Center for Internet and Society director of civil liberties, Jennifer Granick, told ZDNet that American data could be swept up by the NSA, and ma…
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law at the University of Washington and a privacy expert, told me that he’s concerned with how facial recognition techno…
""There is no word in any privacy policy that is not there for a reason. If something is missing, then it's missing for a reason," said Brian…
"Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, expressed concern about the prospect of capturing e-mai…
"It’s not clear that Facebook Inc.’s attempts to manipulate user emotion are an ethical lapse, says Patrick Lin, an associate professor in the philosophy d…
"Law professor Ryan Calo believes that robots are soon going to constitute a more abrupt departure from the technologies that preceded them than did the In…
""How do you get almost 90,000 targets with one order?" wondered Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Interne…
""The wise thing for them to do is simply accept somebody said something mean about them on the Internet and move on," EFF staff attorney Daniel…
"Over at Slate, business reporter Jordan Weissmann assesses the bigger picture and offers advice for law school fence-sitters: Apply to law school now. Th…
"The ripples from Riley may extend to the NSA’s surveillance practices, too, says Jennifer Granick, director of Civil Liberties at Stanford Law School’s Ce…
"Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law who specializes in robotics and drones, told me that the worry about drone…
"Brian Pascal, a research fellow at the University of California, Hastings, told Ars that he didn’t think that this new ruling would impact metadata gather…