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…
""Pirker is a really good test case," Calo told Live Science. "Ultimately, I don't see a scenario where what the FAA does collapses the…
"Still, how Heartbleed was transformed from a security hole in an obscure part of open-source encryption software into a brand recognized around the world…
"Ms. Hofmann explained, Lawyers' rates are highly variable — they depend on years of experience, depth of specialization, technical proficiency, where…
"“Allowing machines to determine who should live or die in a conflict is an issue that concerns all states. The United States has articulated its policy on…
"“We know that users will leave a service if it is slow to load, or if it is unreliable,” said attorney Marvin Ammori, a fellow with the New America Founda…
"A regulation allowing discrimination could also empower ISPs to charge companies a fee to exclude their content from consumers' bandwidth caps, writes…
""Some members of the court will certainly try to consider the place mobile devices play in modern life," said Jennifer Granick, director of civi…
Woodrow Hartzog, Chain Link Confidentiality, 46 Georgia L. Rev. 657 (2012) available at SSRN. Since at least the early 2000s, privacy scholars have illuminated…
"To understand why, the best article to read is the one by Marvin Ammori, who has been fighting this fight for years. He argues that, unlike the CNET artic…
"Bryant Walker Smith writes that “commercial sellers’ growing information about, access to, and control over their products, product users, and product use…
"Citron and Franks both admire his work, but say it can’t stem the larger tide. “It is a drop in the bucket,” says Citron. “There are still over 40 sites d…
"What we need is a way of getting all the relevant privacy information in a timely, applicable and focused fashion. Arvind Narayanan, Assistant Professor o…