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…
This post is about licensing partly autonomous cars. Not legally speaking, autonomous cars are those which can drive themselves without any human input, and par…
A green light in California this week for self-driving cars. Not flooding the highways yet, no. But on their way. Cars where your hands are not on the wheel.…
“It would be absurd to say anything manufactured abroad can’t be bought or sold here,” said Marvin Ammori, a First Amendment lawyer and Schwartz Fellow at the N…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin, who was also at the ceremony, jokingly said "self-driving cars don't run red lights." That may be true, but Bryant…
The advance drones could pose significant problems in the future. Stanford researchers Ryan Calo and Patrick Lin warn that there is a small chance that an advan…
"There's no plan for humans to be totally out of the loop," says Ryan Calo, a Stanford University researcher. "But there are pressures that c…
It will take Google 300 million miles of driving without fatal incident - Bryant Walker Smith, of Stanford Law School, believes - to prove that autonomous cars…
In her book, “Internet Architecture and Innovation,” Professor Barbara van Schewick states that the Internet’s remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation;…
Even our traditional definition of "privacy" may no longer apply in a world of omnipresent cameras and recorders, according to Woodrow Hartzog, assist…
Yesterday, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that would create safety standards for driverless cars - or “intelligent transportation” - in California. Th…
"The hard work is left to be done by the DMV," said Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford's Center for Automotive Research. Still, he points…
California drivers could soon see cars on the road driving themselves, courtesy of Google and the state government. On Tuesday at Google’s headquarters, the go…