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…
"There are very sophisticated chemical sensors or other sorts of sensor technology that permit you to do what the dog-sniffing cases pretty much allow, whi…
"Cameras mounted on buildings that have facial recognition capability, for example, needn't be lofted on a flying drone to be a privacy concern, Ryan C…
"Based on the number of car crashes in the United States and the miles traveled, he concluded that Google's cars would need "to drive themselves (…
"“I’m not saying it’s impossible to hack some online voting for a state election, but it’s much more difficult to do it there” than with the newspaper’s po…
“What I find troubling about it is that she keeps distinguishing Meltwater versus ‘legitimate’ online search tools, but it’s not really clear what that definiti…
""In 2015, when the FAA is set to begin to relax its prohibition on use and integrate civilian use of drones, then I would think the first folks in th…
""Google Glass is possibly the most significant technological threat to 'privacy in public' I've seen," Woodrow Hartzog, an affiliate…
Opinion article by CIS Affiliate Scholar Marvin Ammori. * Date Published:03/20/2013 * Original Publication:Politico…
"“There’s very little in American privacy law that would limit the use of drones for surveillance,” said one witness, Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at…
""There's very little in American privacy law that would limit the domestic use of drones for surveillance," Calo said. Calo said he thinks t…
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law at the University of Washington School of Law, told the committee that citizens have good reason to be concerned abo…
"...but as Marvin Ammori briefly mentioned in last week's favorites post, Rep. Louis Gohmert seems to not only think hacking back is a good idea, but t…