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A.I. Is Going Rogue. Who Should Be Held Responsible?
Many think artificial intelligence companies should be held liable for their runaway technology. But legal scholars say applying existing law could be messy. .…
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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…
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 431: The Many Problems With The FTC’s Pornhub Settlement
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…
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US: Government Has Planted Spy Phones With Suspects
"Even if authorized by a warrant, the dissemination of vulnerable devices could create a risk of significant harm. Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow…
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'Data is a fingerprint': why you aren't as anonymous as you think online
"“Once our data gets out there, it tends to be stored forever,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton computer science professor. “There are firms that specia…
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Two Senators Call for Investigation of Smart TV Industry
"“In terms of practical things the F.T.C. could do, one is filing additional enforcement actions, which, in addition to curtailing individual companies’ pr…
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El Chapo's Lawyers want to Suppress Evidence from Spyware Used to Catch Cheating Spouses
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, said FlexiSPY is “kind of an app version of a wire.…
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Uber axes 100 ‘operator’ positions in self-driving cars
"Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina’s law school, who writes regularly about autonomous driving, said Uber’s trai…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Privacy advocates blast Kavanaugh for government surveillance support
"Kavanaugh could be a “potential vote for retrenchment on privacy and the Fourth Amendment,” said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Stanford Center…
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Criminal case sheds light on Apple self-driving car technology
"The technical detail in the complaint "would only have been possible if Apple complied" with investigators, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assista…
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Why California’s new consumer privacy law won’t be GDPR 2.0
"“For the major online platforms, I think this law will have very little impact,” said Jonathan Mayer, assistant professor of computer science and public a…
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Amazon Is Used to Promote White Supremacist Merchandise and Views, Report Says
"But the debate has ramped up in recent years with an emboldening of white supremacist and anti-Semitic groups and pressure from countries in Europe to get…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Spyware theft case offers a cautionary tale for encryption debate
"“There's nothing preventing an Apple employee from doing the exact same thing in a world where there's mandatory key escrow for exceptional access…
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Outsmarted by a Smart TV? Not This Reporter.
"The experience illustrated how difficult it is to discover how companies may be tracking people on their televisions, which many advertisers see as the fi…
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Facebook Found “Hate Speech” in the Declaration of Independence
"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…