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…
Net neutrality is the idea that the internet should be treated as a utility, meaning that internet service providers (ISPs) should have to treat all data fairly…
“It is no secret that OTT [over the top] Players consume humongous amounts of bandwidth, which puts tremendous pressure on the network infrastructure establishe…
Before the Biden FCC restored net neutrality, there was concern that the new net neutrality rules weren’t as tough as the ones discarded by the Trump administra…
This comes after proponents of net neutrality, like Stanford Law Professor Barbara Van Schewick and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), had called out the…
Some experts expressed doubts that network slicing was really going to be used by telcos in the way net neutrality advocates feared, but the final text appears…
Barbara van Schewick, professor of law at Stanford and Director of the Center for Internet and Society, said the ruling could back up states’ right to create th…
Net neutrality experts like Stanford professor Barbara van Schewick had expressed concerns that the new rules were somewhat weaker than the original. She was pa…
Stanford Law Professor Barbara van Schewick said today's ruling provides states with important protections in the event that the FCC ever deregulates broadb…
What ended up happening in the years after the rollback went into effect in 2018 was so discreet that most people unlikely noticed its effects, says Stanford La…
While the FCC touts the revised ruling as a step towards net neutrality, digital experts are more skeptical of the move. Stanford professor Barbara van Schewic…
Genau solche Überholspuren erfassen die neuen FCC-Regeln jedoch nicht vollständig. Zwar dürfen sich Netzbetreiber von den jeweiligen Online-Anbietern für eine V…
Some net-neutrality proponents say such a solution would not suffice. Barbara van Schewick, a law professor at Stanford University, said that the creation of th…