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…
Google today released its latest transparency report with a stronger message for its users and the United States government, and more detailed reporting about t…
This year has brought the biggest expansion yet of government efforts around the world to gather user data from Google, one of the globe's most-used search…
Government requests for data soared from 3,580 in 2009 to 10,918, Google said on Thursday -- and those are only the data demands the web giant is allowed to pub…
Search giant Google Inc on Wednesday warned that U.S. spying operations risk fracturing the open Internet into a "splinter net" that could hurt Americ…
When the first NSA surveillance story broke in June, about the agency’s collection of phone metadata from Verizon, most people likely had never heard the word m…
Welcome to our hub for all Edward Snowden, NSA and GCHQ-related developments around the world, as controversy over revelations leaked by the whistleblower conti…
Brazilian lawmakers continue to focus on an Internet bill that could force U.S. companies like Google Inc. GOOG +0.49% to open costly data centers in the count…
Adding limited public accountability to the NSA’s vast electronic spying programs would actually harm the privacy of Americans, Obama administration officials t…
"Marvin Ammori’s recent Wired article on the DC Circuit’s likely rejection of the FCC’s Open Internet Order continues to garner attention." * Date P…
The Freedom Feens first interview Daniel Nazer of the Electronic Frontier Foundation about how they fight the good fight, and what it feels like to be David to…
The EFF has already sent a response to Canonical, in a letter from EFF Staff Attorney Daniel Nazer. "While we appreciate the polite tone of your letter, we…
Is this country ready for the drone revolution? Baby steps, says the Federal Aviation Administration, which on Thursday unveiled its new roadmap for releasing d…