The 'dark patterns' at the center of FTC's lawsuit against Amazon
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…
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 Atlantic has published a fascinating article about how the ongoing digital revolution is changing the face of war, and how military and government leaders a…
It’s unlikely that we are ever going to get a book as rigorous and comprehensive in its treatment of infrastructure as a commons than Professor Brett Frischmann…
Arvind Narayanan’s business card is an exercise in brevity. It contains no data except his name and the words “Google me,” a fitting calling card for an academi…
"It's a real boon to the entire robotics industry to have this common language," says Ryan Calo, who follows the robotics industry at Stanford Law…
Network Quality of Service (QoS) is the technical issues that lurks behind the policy issue of net neutrality. While there are many subtle variations of net neu…
For the originator of a meme, legal protections are slim, and that’s the way it should be, says copyright attorney Anthony Falzone, executive director of the Fa…
“Self-driving vehicles, since the 1930s, have been 20 years away,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society w…
Cross-posted from SLS News. New white paper by leading net neutrality scholar discusses the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet rules and the rel…
CIS Affiliate Scholar Marvin Ammori's latest article for The Atlantic. The Supreme Court will soon hear a case that will affect whether you can sell your i…
The human operators who control America’s killer drones are susceptible to the same psychological stress that infantrymen sometimes experience after combat. But…
Marvin Ammori is an Internet law expert who has contributed to promoting freedom and security online. He spent years as a lead advocate for network neutrality,…
“They’re right and they’re wrong,” said Ryan Calo, an incoming law professor at the University of Washington School of Law, who has taught at Stanford Universit…