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…
"“Crypto is really the elephant in the room for the Graham Blumenthal bill, it's a signal for Facebook and Signal to provide this method or be prepared…
"But a firewall isn't necessarily a "silver bullet that would protect them from everything," said Richard Forno, assistant director of the Un…
"“Basically, anything that a provider has that it can decode, law enforcement is getting it,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel for…
""The American democracy is messy," said Richard Forno, assistant director of the Center for Cybersecurity at the University of Maryland, Baltimo…
"Riana Pfefferkorn, at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, says it's a safe bet the best practices would include a requirement t…
"Asked whether he rebuffed HireVue's overture, Narayanan forwarded his email exchange with the company to CBS MoneyWatch. Instead of a private discussi…
The R2 recently received the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) first federal exemption to test a self-driving vehicle on public streets. “It’s a signal…
""This study from MIT appears to have been structured with care in the way that the analysis was conducted," said Andrea Matwyshyn, an election s…
"Woodrow Hartzog, a law and computer science professor at Northeastern University, doesn’t think privacy armor is the solution to our modern woes. “It cre…
"Thomas Lohninger, executive director of epicenter.works, a Vienna-based digital rights group, said it is necessary for all the companies building 5G netwo…
""Tell me your speed records, that's great," said Bryant Walker Smith, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina’s School of…
"“Within months, technologists say, it will be impossible…to detect deepfakes” with counter-technology, says Danielle Citron, a School of Law professor of…