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…
"Having an ethicist might help mediate some of these tensions, depending on how much power they have, says Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor specializing…
"“What sets Florida apart is the number of laws,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a professor of law who studies AVs at the University of South Carolina. Walker…
"Daphne Keller, the director of intermediary liability at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society and a former associate general counsel…
""You can pull a lot of information off of a device with Bluetooth," Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the ACLU Speech,…
"HBO says the Washington First Amendment lawyer Marvin Ammori was a “key consultant” on the show’s testimony scene as well as on legal issues. Reached by p…
"Perhaps the most obvious path to expanding law enforcement access to encrypted products is legislation. Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveilla…
""The slides overall are extremely misleading and inaccurate, and frankly I would be somewhat embarrassed if my team had provided that slide deck to p…
"University of San Francisco law professor Jiarui Liu said more companies may be resorting to litigating IP issues in China rather than in the U.S., becaus…
""The technology that flags these things doesn't know the truth," said Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the ACLU S…
"Were Section 230 to be abolished, as Benioff wants, it might actually hurt Facebook’s competitors more than it would hurt Facebook — not exactly the outco…
""dtSearch provided the tool to take on the challenge of searching the records," says Elizabeth Townsend Gard, creator of the Durationator projec…
"Days later, on Wednesday, October 16, privacy and constitutional law scholar Danielle Citron, a School of Law professor of law, joined a panel of industry…