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…
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and the author of the upcoming book "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace," told CBS News…
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and the author of the upcoming book "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace," told CBS News…
"“Someday drones will be commonplace in U.S. skies and, before that happens, it’s imperative that Congress enact strong, nationwide privacy rules,” ACLU at…
""This particular instance perfectly exemplifies a variety of concerns that people have about … vulnerability-based marketing," Calo said. "…
"The blunder “exemplifies very efficiently all the troubling things about data-driven marketing,” Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law at the University o…
"“Furthermore, given how broadly it's possible to define the word ‘tip,’ we have no information on how useful those thousand tips were,” Brian Pascal,…
"Bryant Walker Smith, a Stanford fellow and member of the school's Center for Automotive Research, has been looking into and blogging on those issues.…
"“Some of the most disturbing revelations that came out over the last few months were the ones surrounding the NSA's attempts to weaken or circumvent e…
""Because they've negotiated this with the government, we still don't even have a concrete sense of the number of the things" they hand o…
""It’s a good first step, but it is not nearly as far as his Review Group recommended nor as far as Congress has proposed," Michelle Richardson,…
""We are no longer seen as a safe business climate," said Aleecia M. McDonald, director of privacy at Stanford's Center for Internet and Soci…
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