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…
"Marshall Erwin is Mozilla's senior director of trust and security and a proponent of the "dough" school of pronunciation. From Mozilla's…
"“There’s still a whole ecosystem predicated on sucking as much information from people’s phones as possible,” Jen King, the director of consumer privacy a…
"Richard Salgado, Google director of law enforcement and information security, said the company had processes to look through government requests and ensur…
"“A lot of what the tech companies have come under fire for in recent years has largely—especially with regard to Facebook—focused on privacy lapses, insuf…
"“I don’t think you guys are doing anything different than anyone else in the media ecosystem, but that doesn’t make it great,” Jennifer King, director of…
"“Designing things specifically for activists is often a challenging proposition,” says security expert Tom Lowenthal. “When you make a tool for a threaten…
"Danielle Citron, a Boston University law professor specializing in online speech, said Section 230 has failed to live up to its promise and that modifying…
"Danielle Citron, a law professor at Boston University, tells Sleepwalkers that deepfakes are being used to harass women, both in private and in public. La…
"Experts on the panel, like Boston University School of Law professor Danielle Citron, suggested tying the liability shield to companies’ demonstrating “re…
"Ryan Calo, a UW law professor and one of the co-directors of the center, said they hope to publish online tools to help people decipher a suspicious artic…
"“At this point, the bans on Huawei are more of a theoretical concern,” says Ryan Singel, a media and strategy fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for I…
"Martin Husovec, an assistant professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands who has written about data portability, said authorities were debating whe…