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…
On February 14, 2012, President Obama signed the Federal Aviation Administration Modernization and Reform Act into law. This Act requires the FAA to allow othe…
Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Jennifer Stisa Granick as Director of Civil Liberties at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Grani…
CIS Resident Fellow Bryant Walker Smith talks with Patrick Egan sUAS News about some recent and upcoming events as well as examine the potential ramifications f…
"Meanwhile, Google has funded a flurry of academic reports. Two published earlier this month — one by Hal Singer and Bob Litan, of Navigant Economics, and…
[CIS Non-Residential Fellow Andrew] McLaughlin recently sat down with Slate’s Jacob Weisberg to talk about how the culture on Tumblr flows from company founder…
“This is essentially like letting consumers open the hoods of their own cars,” said Marcia Hofmann, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wh…
"Requiring law enforcement agents to secure a warrant based upon probable cause before obtaining geolocational information would allow legitimate investiga…
Constitutional law expert (and CIS Affiliate Scholar) Marvin Ammori, one of the First Amendment scholars along with Larry Tribe who explained how SOPA would vio…
As Silicon Valley hones its political agenda, Marvin Ammori has become the go-to First Amendment guy--as evidenced in January, when he helped destroy PIPA and S…
The Task Force on Internet Hate, created by the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism (ICCA), formally approved a motion May 7 establishing…
* Date Published:05/09/2012 * Original Publication:SF Gate…
Over 30 legal academics from current or potential future Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiating countries wrote to United States Trade Representa…