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…
""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…
"A warrant "is particularly important when it comes to GPS tracking because the technology is cheap, convenient, difficult to detect, and highly intru…
"In testimony before a House judiciary subcommittee on Tuesday, Richard Salgado, a Google director for law enforcement and information security, said the 1…
"Jennifer Granick, the Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, says that none of the unlocking bills recently introduc…
"Ryan Calo, a professor of law at the University of Washington, also calls them drones. To him, a drone needs to have three qualities: First, it needs to b…
"“We don’t yet know how judges and juries will react,” says Bryant Walker Smith of Stanford Law School." * Date Published:03/14/2013 * Original Pub…
But not every kind of robotmaker should be responsible for its creations. Ryan Calo of University of Washington Law School argues that to foster start-up-style…