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…
CIS Non-Residential Fellow Shaheen Shariff has been named as one of four worldwide recipients of Facebook’s first Digital Citizenship research grants – a $50,00…
Ryan Calo quoted in the cover story for the Brazilian magazine Epoca on the Facebook IPO. (Note: Full story behind paywall) * Date Published:02/08/2012 * Or…
KUOW's Sara Lerner interviews Ryan Calo about privacy as it relates to Microsoft placing ads in newspapers across the country toutings its efforts to protec…
Huffington Post article by Affiliate Scholar Marvin Ammori. Next Friday, February 10, the Stanford Technology Law Review is holding its annual symposium, and t…
CIS Non-Residential Fellow David Levine writes about SOPA and ACTA in this Info Justice post. In the wake of the Stop Online Piracy Act/PROTECT IP Act (collect…
NPR's Neal Conan speaks with Woodrow Hartzog, Junior Affiliate Scholar CIS and assistant professor of privacy law and online agreements at Samford Universit…
Ryan Calo appears in the 100th episode of the podcast Surprisingly Free, which celebrates with "a selection of some of the best clips from our last 99 show…
Ryan Calo is quoted in a Los Angeles Times story, “Google plans to merge more user data across its products.” * Date Published:01/24/2012 * Original Publicat…
Ryan Calo is quoted by Tom Vanderbilt, author of the New York Times bestseller Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do (And What It Says About Us), in the cover sto…
Ryan Calo talks with Google and their changing privacy policies. Google is revising its privacy policies and making it clear that information collected by one p…
Ryan Calo intereviewed on Canadian CBC National News regarding Google's new privacy policy. * Date Published:01/25/2012 * Original Publication:CBC Nation…
Cars can do all sorts of things automatically these days — parallel park, adjust headlights, and sense when you're tired and sound an alarm or vibrate the d…