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…
"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…
"“One major question remains though,” Smith said. “Will tomorrow’s cars and trucks have to adapt to today’s legal infrastructure, or will that infrastructu…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation hired Daniel Nazer as a staff attorney, the San Francisco-based digital rights advocacy group said in a statement. * Date P…
“This study is a good demonstration not only of how much information is collected, but also how much additional information can be extracted through data analys…
Newtown school shooting raises the question of whether someone can be prosecuted for posting false information online. "What the prosecutors would have to…
"These kinds of terms are pretty common these days, which is unfortunate, because some of them border on the ridiculous," says Woodrow Hartzog, an ass…
For instance: "Aspects of Autonomous Driving," the course offered at Stanford University Law School. "We can teach torts through 18th-century En…