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…
""People who interact socially online respond much better when they have a little time to remove or make more obscure information that is going to bec…
"The level of precision that satisfies advertisers is very different from the amount of exactitude federal authorities need, said Jennifer Granick, directo…
"...There are plenty of places where the law recognizes discomfort — it is a harm in its own right," Ryan Calo, an affiliate scholar for the Center fo…
"State and federal driving laws obviously weren’t written with this technology in mind, but as Bryant Walker Smith of Stanford University’s Center for Inte…
"What California does often ends up becoming the law of the land," said Ryan Calo, assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law.…
"The justification for creating temporary monopolies through patents and copyrights is that they encourage creative activity that would not otherwise take…
"The allegation that his recording of the incident violated HIPAA, or the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is nonsense, said Je…
"“There is no satisfying general answer as to what the basic privacy rights are for social media users,” said Woodrow Hartzog, assistant professor of law a…
"“Imagine that someone invents a time machine. Does she break the law by using that machine to travel to the past? Whether the new technology is time machi…
"...Smith (who is a fellow at Stanford’s Center for the Internet and Society) says that as a consequence, ever “since the 1930s, self-driving cars have bee…
Ryan Calo's Op-Ed mentioned in Wired's top privacy stories of 2012. * Date Published:12/27/2012 * Original Publication:Wired…
One of the top five most-read blogs on TAP in 2012, in Drone Crash, Professor Ryan Calo examines the crash of a drone into a Texas police vehicle and outlines t…