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…
"“It’s one way to ensure your photos won’t be reposted,” said Danielle Citron, vice president of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated t…
"“Automated driving safety does not come down to a test,” said Bryant Walker Smith, associate professor at the University of South Carolina’s School of Law…
"“We can’t have the kind of productive, healing conversations we need to if we can’t get some handle on misinformation or disinformation,” said Ryan Calo,…
"Calo said AI will disrupt the workforce and expressed dismay that computers will fully replicate human capabilities in the future. “I think that the impac…
""Implementing DoH is far more than just the technical work, though. We need to decide on sensible and protective defaults for the vast majority of pe…
"Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies autonomous vehicles, said Uber's system wasn't ready for testing on…
"“We often think of sex as both exciting and disgusting,” says Danielle Citron, a professor of law at Boston University Law School and 2019 MacArthur Fello…
"Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity for Stanford Law School, said antitrust suspicion and the calls for backdoors to e…
"Mozilla, meanwhile, says it is moving to implement DoH specifically to hamper ISPs' ability to monetize and “abuse” their users' data. Marshall Er…
"Brian Nussbaum, who is a fellow with New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative and an assistant professor of cybersecurity at the University of Albany, said…
"“Creating a list of data brokers is a first step in helping consumers know who these actors are, but that does nothing to constrain their practices,” said…
"Jen King, the director for privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, says these types of data controls are far too superficial. “I…