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…
"Ryan Calo is an assistant professor of law at the University of Washington. He wonders if Jeff Bezos’ plan for drones will fall inside the existing law.…
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who has written extensively about drones, said that this is precisely the kind of application C…
"Stanford researchers are trying to act like the NSA in order to learn about the NSA. Researchers Jonathan Mayer and Patrick Mutchler created MetaPhone, an…
Listen to the full interview over at KCRW. The cars of today are almost fully automated, and the smart technology for driverless cars has now been developed. W…
"“Schools are competing feverishly for good students. An applicant who, a few years ago, would have been wait-listed at a top twenty school, may now find h…
The Wickr team is brought together by the strong belief that private correspondence is a universal human right that is extremely important to a free society. Ea…
"Then I spoke to an actual expert, Julie Ahrens, Director of Copyright & Fair Use at Stanford’s Center for Internet & Society. She convinced me tha…
"Julie Ahrens, director of copyright and fair use for Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, thinks GoldieBlox did the right thing by stick…
“This is exactly what fair use gives you the right to do,” said Julie Ahrens, the director of copyright and fair use at Stanford Law School's Center for the…
"‟Our hypothesis is that phone metadata reflects personal information, such as your location, age, gender, employment, relationships, and interests,” Mayer…
""You have a huge uphill battle," said attorney Colette Vogele, co-founder of Without My Consent, an organization helping victims of online harra…
"Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security matters for Google, confers with Pablo Chavez, Google director of publicity, while t…