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…
"“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,…
Jennifer Granick, CIS Director of Civil Liberties, was recently interviwed by Slashdot users about surveillance, data protection, copyright, and number of other…
""In contrast the European Union has looked at automation much more broadly in the context of economic development and mobility," Smith notes, &q…
Read the full profile of Jonathan Mayer at the Los Angeles Times. "Jonathan Mayer is not a typical Stanford University graduate student. Already, at age 2…
"It’s quite clear: for most people, the link between government surveillance and freedom is more plainly understood by cars, rather than personal computers…
"But CrossFit could face an uphill battle proving that the videos violate their copyright, said Julie Ahrens, director of Copyright and Fair Use at Stanfor…
"Bryant Walker Smith, who teaches the law of self-driving cars as a fellow at Stanford University, described one rule-drafting session where Google — not t…