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…
"Barbara van Schewick and Morgan Weiland of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society provided a good breakdown of what the latest news means.…
"Andrew McLaughlin, chief executive of Digg, a news collection site, said he was worried that if big companies were allowed to buy priority service on the…
"Amazon hasn't replied to questions from El Reg as to what use this patent could be put to, so we consulted the Electronic Frontier Foundation's st…
On Wednesday, May 7th at 6:30 p.m. EST, Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) hosted a panel discussion on recently proposed net neutrality rules from the Chairman of t…
""How do I compare this to what will happen if we do nothing?" asked Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Int…
"The companies signed on to the letter include Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter, along with a wide array of other companies from across the…
"Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, said she believes information sharing between indu…
""I worry that profitable organizations will use big data to disadvantage consumers," Calo adds. "Intimate knowledge of consumers coupled wi…
"“The basic technology that they claim was invented before they filed their patent,” Nazer explains. “This one is a bit complicated because the patent syst…
"Yet security researchers who, in an attempt to be helpful, discover vulnerabilities and tell companies about them can face lawsuits or even criminal prose…
"Here’s how Barbara van Schewick of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society puts it: “Access fees would significantly increase the costs of o…
"Daniel Nazer, an EFF staff attorney, is working to invalidate PersonalAudio's patent — which Logan described: "system for disseminating media con…