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…
Stanford Law Professor Barbara van Schewick is warning that the Federal Communications Commission needs to address 5G fast lanes. The FCC is preparing to re-in…
Ahead of the Federal Communications Commission’s April 25 vote to adopt Net Neutrality regulations, various advocates and industries are seeking changes to Chai…
Barbara van Schewick, professor with the Stanford Law School, described net neutrality as “we the people” getting the choice about what to do online. “We get t…
Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick at the meeting pointed out, in the case of firefighters losing internet access, it doesn’t matter who was right or w…
Stanford Law Professor Barbara Van Schewick says it doesn't matter if this was morally right or wrong, it's about making sure it never happens again. &…
Who has been asking – since the beginning of the “fair share” debate – for a dispute resolution mechanism for CAPs and cloud providers? Indeed ETNO, from their…
The FCC has announced that it will vote to restore the net neutrality rules stripped away by the Trump administration during an agency meeting on April 25. A r…
Barbara van Schewick is a professor at the Stanford Law School and director of the Center for Internet and Society, Larry Lessig’s old job. She is without quest…
“The fundamental difference between the American legal system and elsewhere […] is the U.S. outlaws bad actions, not tools. Sam Bankman-Fried went to prison for…
The AI boom, including the advent of large language models (LLMs) and their associated chatbots, poses new challenges for privacy. Is our personal information p…
The Open Technology Institute at New America (OTI), Public Knowledge, Stanford Law School Professor Barbara Van Schewick, and University of California at Irvine…
The Supreme Court’s decision in those cases — Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton — is a big test of the power of social media companies, potentially res…