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…
"Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, said the documents could raise concerns about antitrust and how Faceb…
""They created a platform where sharing was mindlessly easy and interacting with each other required almost no forethought at all," said Woodrow…
"Jennifer Granick, the ACLU’s surveillance and cybersecurity counsel, said the public “deserves to know why the government thought it could dismantle measu…
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and the author of a book on hate crimes in cyberspace, said that clarification could be…
"“DNS blocks are easy to circumvent, because site operators can just register a different domain name in the same top level domain or move to a different t…
"hat's what Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of business law and ethics in the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, recommends. He re…
"“The fair use defense in this context has never been litigated,” noted Annemarie Bridy, a law professor at the University of Idaho and an Affiliate Schola…
"Stanford Law’s Jen King is more than familiar with the potential policy pitfalls unique to this area of data collection. As director of consumer privacy f…
"“What kinds of criminals mask their location, and for what kinds of crimes? Child pornography, yes; violent threats, yes; but also organized-crime rings e…
"While panelists acknowledged valid consumer protection concerns, they generally counseled against overly-cautious regulation and were instead in favor of…
""An algorithm could've given us Dred Scott or Korematsu," said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, referring to a pa…
"“Perhaps more likely at this stage are charges alleging a conspiracy to hack into computers under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,” Tom Rubin, a Stanford…