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…
"That in-your-face quality of Glass could wake up more people to their ever shrinking privacy in the rapidly advancing digital age, University of Washingto…
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law at the University of Washington, calls the town's reaction a "cowboy instinct." Coming from a town tha…
"Jennifer Granick was the first to admit that it’s difficult to know what reforms are necessary because as Schneier pointed out, it’s impossible to know wh…
"Aleecia M. McDonald, a privacy researcher and resident fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society says web ads invisibly assign a unique numbe…
"“The FAA intends to announce a plan for commercial operators to seek certificates of authorization in September of 2015, but that does not mean that drone…
"“This use of license-plate scanning differs from the way police contemplate using drones, and in many ways it’s probably worse,” Calo said. “This is more…
"Each year at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference, organized by the UC Berkeley School of Law and the George Washington University (GWU) School of Law, sch…
"This court has evolved to serve a very different role than when it began," said Jennifer Granick, a lawyer at the Stanford Center for Internet and So…
"But, wait. We should also factor in the many more lives that would be spared. A good consequentialist would look at this bigger picture and argue that as…
"JENNIFER GRANICK: I don't think that the companies are in the position to well safeguard our privacy and Fourth Amendment rights." * Date Publi…
"At the local level, driverless cars will change the way cities think about zoning, parking and idling rules, and could eventually allow cities to develop…
""This is one of those unanswered legal questions: Is there any circumstance under which they could get password information?" said Jennifer Gran…