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Scholars define dark patterns as user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, manipulating, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. Although dark patterns are a subject of interest of policymakers around the globe, to date, little legislation has been enacted to regulate them. This Article analyzes the definition […]

The platform economy is facing a crisis of accountability. Large Internet platforms, once regarded as sources of hope for democratic social movements or engines of a promising new economy—or, at worst, just superficial distractions—are now facing serious public scrutiny across the globe. The executives of Facebook, Google, and Twitter have been called before the U.S. […]

Video games are now more complex and realistic than they ever have been—but making those games is not cheap. Video game development and marketing costs are sky high. To help recoup these costs, game developers and publishers have begun inventing increasingly clever ways to encourage users to spend more money on video games—and they are […]

On May 5, 2020, a group of telecom system operators and network vendors including AT&T, Samsung, and Vodafone published a blog post announcing the formation of the Open Radio Access Network (RAN) Policy Coalition, a new coalition of companies that promotes “open and interoperable solutions” in RAN, the crucial back-end equipment that enables 5G. The […]

Scholars define dark patterns as user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, manipulating, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. Although dark patterns are a subject of interest of policymakers around the globe, to date, little legislation has been enacted to regulate them. This Article analyzes the definition […]

The platform economy is facing a crisis of accountability. Large Internet platforms, once regarded as sources of hope for democratic social movements or engines of a promising new economy—or, at worst, just superficial distractions—are now facing serious public scrutiny across the globe. The executives of Facebook, Google, and Twitter have been called before the U.S. […]

Video games are now more complex and realistic than they ever have been—but making those games is not cheap. Video game development and marketing costs are sky high. To help recoup these costs, game developers and publishers have begun inventing increasingly clever ways to encourage users to spend more money on video games—and they are […]

Digitization of traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCE) can be a powerful means to many noble ends. For example, archiving herbal medicines or traditional performance art by recording it in writing or video can prevent those cultural pieces from being lost as a result of death of living memory, natural disaster, or conflict. […]

On May 5, 2020, a group of telecom system operators and network vendors including AT&T, Samsung, and Vodafone published a blog post announcing the formation of the Open Radio Access Network (RAN) Policy Coalition, a new coalition of companies that promotes “open and interoperable solutions” in RAN, the crucial back-end equipment that enables 5G. The […]

Digitization of traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCE) can be a powerful means to many noble ends. For example, archiving herbal medicines or traditional performance art by recording it in writing or video can prevent those cultural pieces from being lost as a result of death of living memory, natural disaster, or conflict. […]

Image recognition technologies (IRTs) are tools that are capable of taking images, detecting and classifying objects within those images, and outputting some desired result based on the analysis. With computers becoming more powerful and image data availability increasing, IRTs are continually improving, enabling humans to use them for applications like optical character recognition (OCR), healthcare, […]