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[co-author: Nicole Sockett] The FTC recently held a workshop titled “Bringing Dark Patterns to Light,” a recording of which can be found at the following link. The workshop centered around exploring the effects of digital “dark patterns” on consumers and the marketplace. The term “dark patterns” refers to a range of potentially deceptive website design tactics that can manipulate consumers’ behavior or limit their autonomy. Dark patterns can deceive consumers into purchasing, sharing, or agreeing to items consumers did not intend to purchase, share, or agree to. Dark patterns ar...

You may not recognize the term dark patterns, but you’ve probably seen enough manipulative interfaces to get the idea. A user experience in a site, app, or gadget is constructed to herd customers into following a company’s dictates, even if those will cost people their money or data. Now one of Washington’s consumer regulators is asking how the public sector could address this private-sector plague. advertisement advertisement At the Federal Trade Commission’s “Bringing Dark Patterns to Light” online workshop April 29, speakers uniformly denounced these deceptive interfaces in ap...

Wednesday, May 5, 2021 The FTC recently held a workshop titled “Bringing Dark Patterns to Light,” a recording of which can be found at the following link. The workshop centered around exploring the effects of digital “dark patterns” on consumers and the marketplace. The term “dark patterns” refers to a range of potentially deceptive website design tactics that can manipulate consumers’ behavior or limit their autonomy. Dark patterns can deceive consumers into purchasing, sharing, or agreeing to items consumers did not intend to purchase, share, or agree to. Dark patte...

Why the FTC is inspecting dark patterns in digital data privacy and the NAI is bracing for potential regulations Ivy Liu Online manipulation is emerging as a new front in the digital privacy battleground. Researchers say dark patterns — nuanced design elements intended to coerce people into taking certain actions — can be found in the physical environment from the grocery store aisle to casinos. But they’re especially prevalent in the digital world when it comes to things like e-commerce sales tactics and data tracking opt-out n...

April 4, 2021 Donald Trump and his allies relied on misinformation to bolster support for the former US president ahead of the last election. His campaign, meanwhile, turned to deceptive design to bump up donations from unsuspecting Americans, the New York Times reports. Last September, the paper reveals, when the Trump campaign faced a cash shortage, it leaned on supporters to turn their one-time donations into monthly—and, eventually, weekly—contributions. The problem is the campaign’s website didn’t ask people to opt– in to this enhanced giving schedule, it asked them to opt-ou...