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…
"“To make a true threat, you don’t need to ever actually carry it out. You just need to terrify someone,” argues University of Maryland professor (and Forb…
""Patents are so incompatible with the open source software philosophy," said Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundat…
"Jonathan Mayer's education path is unusual: He has earned a Stanford law degree while working on his PhD in computer science. He did research with a f…
""Everything about it is surprising to me, Calo told Live Science. "I'm surprised the FAA is allowing any commercial use in advance of releas…
""The net neutrality condition has been important to the FCC," said Marvin Ammori, a fellow at the New America Foundation. "It has almost al…
""It's a bad interpretation of the statute," Christopher Sprigman, a law professor at New York University, told Mashable. "This is just…
"“The idea that you're going to get an injunction and a finding of infringement based on speculation of security harms without any actual facts to supp…
"“I was wondering if it was evil or stupid,” New York University Law Prof. Christopher Sprigman said. “I realized I didn’t have to decide — it’s both.” No…
"“I’ve been telling them that, at this very early stage, what’s important isn’t so much nailing down the right answers to difficult ethical dilemmas, but t…
"In his paper entitled Digital Market Manipulation, Professor Ryan Calo suggests that a market mediated by technology creates a “sea change in the way comp…
"BART's logo is not in the public domain, and even local T-shirt artists who glean BART imagery do so at their own legal peril. But, in claiming it can…
"Leading a later panel, Andrew McLaughlin, the CEO of Digg, sought to "de-cartoonize" the conflicts between peer-to-peer networks and regulators,…