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…
"Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland who works with Facebook’s non-consensual intimate images advisory group in an unpaid capaci…
"“Generally speaking, the bill is great. They are right that it’s the strongest protection in the country … with the three provisions back,” said Ryan Sing…
"University of South Carolina law Professor Bryant Walker Smith, who studies autonomous vehicles, said lanes dedicated to autonomous traffic could accommod…
"Working out those details is important, because many companies that collect personal data continue making "fundamental mistakes" in how they pro…
""It looks like it will put some restrictions on the sale of personal information, but there doesn't seem to be anything there limiting the collec…
"Aleecia McDonald, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said in an interview that it’s “a typical path for California to pass privacy laws…
"Daphne Keller, of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said Section 230 was designed to allow platforms like Facebook to do some moderation and m…
"That exception may be large enough to give ad tech companies room to argue that they are exempt from the measure, according to Jonathan Mayer, assistant p…
"Lyft’s acquisition of Motivate is merely one more step in the ride-hailing industry’s march toward increased dominance in the shared-vehicle market, wheth…
"The Diet Madison Avenue suit, filed in Los Angeles, named the account and a string of Jane and John Does, representing dozens of people it believed were a…
"“The federal government is the largest consumer of commercial wireless services and is susceptible to the same cybersecurity risks in our communications i…
"Ryan Calo, a law professor who co-directs the University of Washington‘s tech policy lab, agreed that the sort of glitch Amazon described is unlikely. But…