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…
"“First rule of data: once you hand it over, you lose control of it,” University of California law professor Elizabeth Joh warned recently on Twitter. “You…
"Language used in privacy policies is often deliberately ambiguous, says Jen King, Director of Consumer Privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Interne…
"n a letter to lawmakers, Mozilla complained that providers' resistance to a privacy and security feature Mozilla is helping to develop "has raise…
"Imagine: After a long flight home from a conference, you walk outside to the airport's ground transportation and are met by an airport shuttle, which…
"“I don’t pay much attention to all this talk about national legislation. It’s incredibly hard for Congress to do anything and even harder in privacy which…
"From a legal perspective, the investigative practice is straightforward, said Princeton University professor Jonathan Mayer. “Law enforcement can access…
"But not all court cases are just about getting a jury verdict. “I think it’s a sincere attempt to use the C.F.A.A. in a novel way,” said Riana Pfefferkorn…
"GeekWire: Did the producers and writers and the rest of the team behind “Terminator” learn anything since the earlier films? Carissa Schoenick: “Yeah … S…
"Danielle Citron, a legal scholar and a recipient this year of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" for her work fighting online harassment, als…
It's easy to take for granted that we get to use the websites and apps of our choice. That's thanks to net neutrality, the principle that we get to make…
When Danielle Citron began studying online harassment more than a decade ago, her argument that online mobs and coordinated harassment constituted civil-rights…
"However, Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of Stanford Law’s surveillance and cybersecurity program, said she doesn’t think it would be as simple as r…