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…
"A number of researchers (including me) recently joined an amicus brief (filed by Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society in the “Weev” case), arguing h…
""I call obscurity 'pretty good privacy,'" Woodrow Hartzog, a privacy expert affiliated with Stanford's Center for Internet and Socie…
"“I am convinced that when the technology is ready, the law and policy will make room,” Bryant Walker Smith, a Stanford Law School fellow who organized the…
"Whether the government could obtain a user's login information with a wiretap order is an "unanswered legal question" in the United States,…
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law and advisory board member at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said…
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who specializes in new technologies and privacy, has suggested that gadgets like Google Glass o…
"But in return for assuming greater liability, car makers may want to move from a sales model to a lease model, or transportation as a service, according t…
'"At first, we didn't think it posed much of a privacy problem," Crump said. The ACLU saw a system that triggered a real-time alert to the pre…
"“From an ethical perspective, there are several frameworks on principles that we could adopt, each with its pros and cons and each potentially generating…
""The parties are now further apart on the negotiations than they ever had been," said Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford privacy researcher and Do Not T…
"“On substance, with a great deal of additional work issue-by-issue, it is not impossible to make this draft work, perhaps in 2014,” Aleecia McDonald, dire…
""Revealing what went on in the court is critical to having a democracy," said Jennifer Stisa Granick, a civil liberties expert at Stanford law s…