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…
"For Calo, whose work looks at online tracking for ad sales, the questions come down to consumer protection: How can we ensure that low-information consume…
"Plus Professor Ryan Calo from the University of Washington tells us it's not so much about privacy and that instead we should worry about what profit-…
"JENNIFER GRANICK: Nothing in Smith versus Maryland authorizes mass surveillance, and the information that was collected in Smith versus Maryland is a much…
"Meanwhile, a privacy expert, Woodrow Hartzog, law professor at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, echoed this sentiment and noted that fa…
"Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, previously of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Granick, a former defense a…
Cross-posted from Stanford Law School STANFORD, Calif., August 20, 2013—Stanford Law School today announced that researchers at its Center for Internet and Soc…
"A new paper by professor Ryan Calo at the University of Washington goes the furthest I have seen in elucidating the potential harms of digital-ad targetin…
"That McFarland teen Heather Traska has loved Disney for years sparkles in every frame of her videos, popular mash-ups of "Tangled," "The Li…
"At recent hacking conventions in Las Vegas, cybersecurity experts revealed how easy it is to hack everything from cars to pacemakers. " * Date Publ…
"Two civil rights lawyers, Jennifer Granick and Christopher Sprigman, wrote a post in Forbes that lays out a description of NSA domestic spying, it's i…
"In an interview for this piece, the CCH’s new director, Aleecia McDonald, responded unequivocally, “The Cookie Clearinghouse approach does not block ads.”…
"As Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, put it recently: “America invented the Inte…