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…
"In a company blog posting, Google legal director Richard Salgado noted that “Government requests for user information in criminal cases have increased by…
"Daniel Nazer, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that restrictions on patent eligibility would lead to greater innovation because c…
"In the wake of the controversy, Oliar and Sprigman decided take a scholarly look at the matter. “It just seemed odd,” says Sprigman, a visiting professor…
"Marvin Ammori, a lawyer who has represented Google in the copyright wars, recently called such voluntary agreements no less threatening to free expression…
""Our phone records are sensitive, but so are our financial records, Internet information, email data," said Michelle Richardson, the ACLU's…
"“As data security becomes a progressively more important aspect of corporate governance, and as consumers become progressively more concerned with the sta…
""USA Freedom is more comprehensive and it's essential that it pass to fix much of what is wrong with domestic surveillance," Jennifer Granic…
"“It’s an escalation of censorship efforts,” said Andrew McLaughlin, who was a policy director at Google from 2003 to 2009 and worked on Turkish issues.&qu…
"As Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor who studies cyber-harassment, put it to me in an email this morning, "A federal criminal l…
"But Michelle Richardson, a legislative counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, said the impact on the scope isn't clear, and that the adminis…
""It's very clear there are enormous loopholes," said Jonathan Mayer, a cybersecurity fellow at Stanford University's Center for Internat…
""What surprised us was how much sensitive information was crammed into the metadata," said Jonathan Mayer, a doctoral candidate and a cybersecur…