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…
"Privacy scholar Ryan Calo has argued that creepiness in advertising can be problematic in itself. How so? He says that making people feel “creeped out” on…
"‘The biggest legal question is the fact that there are questions,’ says Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society at Stanford U…
"M. Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor with expertise in robotics and data security, notes that there are upsides to robotic warfare, like…
"Bryant Walker Smith, a lecturer at Stanford Law School who studies driverless vehicles, said there’s still no consensus on how we’ll know these cars are s…
"“Autonomous systems interacting with each other competitively can escalate quickly and unpredictably,“ says Dr. Peter Asaro, a philosopher of science at t…
"Even though technology companies like Google generally fear that innovation far outpaces regulation and risks being stifled by it, it has a different appr…
""Young people don't think about privacy of information to third parties," Hartzog said. "When they get older, it becomes more real. It…
"However, the level of precision that satisfies marketers is very different from the exactitude required by government agencies, says Jennifer Granick, dir…
"“In the spectrum of highly protected to lower-protected, they’re definitely on the lower end of the scale,” Ms. Ahrens said." * Date Published:05/2…
"On Wednesday, May 29th in Geneva, Switzerland, a United Nations report will be presented on the moral problems of using autonomous weapons (or "kille…
""There's this idea that you can access information, but if you access it fast then you're a criminal," Granick said. "If anything,…
""The face is a really intimate place and to have a piece of technology on it is unsettling," Calo said. "Much as a drone is unsettling beca…