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 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…
Steven Cherry interviews Professor Barbara van Schewick about Verizon and Google Wallet. Transcripts of the interview can be found at the original publication…
Ryan Calo, Director of Privacy and Robotics, is interviewed in this Marketplace interview about the main obligations Facebook needs to give it's customers i…
Ryan Calo, Director of Privacy and Robotics, spoke with Somini Sengupta of the New York Times on the settlement between Facebook and the F.T.C. and how it was n…
Andrew McLaughlin, Non-Residential Fellow with the Center for Internet and Society, is mentioned by Bryce Baschuk of the Washington Internet Daily in this artic…