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New consent management platforms (CMPs) have been introduced to the web to conform with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, particularly its requirements for consent when companies...
GDPR was supposed to enhance privacy protections. But companies are using dark patterns to circumvent them, and there’s not much regulators can do about it.
"The term was coined by design consultant Harry Brignull about 10 years ago."
Millions of shoppers are expected to take advantage of online bargains over the Thanksgiving holiday—but buyer beware. Many e-commerce purchases are pushed by misleading tactics designed to get consumers to buy goods they otherwise wouldn’t.
Scholars and commentators often argue that individuals do not care about their privacy, and that users routinely trade privacy for convenience. This i…
Scholars and commentators often argue that individuals do not care about their privacy, and that users routinely trade privacy for convenience. This ignores the
Shopping websites have ways of getting you to do what they want.
New research into how European consumers interact with the cookie consent mechanisms which have proliferated since a major update to the bloc’s online privacy rules last year casts an unflattering light on widespread manipulation of a system that’s supposed to protect consumer rights. As Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May […]
Dark patterns work, unfortunately.
FFS FACEBOOK
The e-mail startup isn’t the only company learning that a product can be powerful and elegant without being good.
Over the past 25 years, email has weaved itself into the daily fabric of life. Our inboxes contain everything from very personal letters, to work correspondence, to unsolicited inbound sales pitches. In many ways, they are an extension of our …
Amazon and Google are happy to give users the option to pause tracking. Why can’t we stop it entirely?
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The way we design user interfaces can have a profound impact on the privacy of a user’s data. It should be easy for users to make choices that protect their data privacy. But all too often, big tech
Creative Speculation on the Negative Effects of HCI Research
Tech companies are perpetuating a bleak view of humans as programmable cogs
Computers are bad at taking no for an answer. This is a problem.
Silicon Valley’s most successful tech companies use the insights of behaviour design to pump us with dopamine and keep us returning to their products. But, as Ian Leslie learns, some of the psychologists who developed the science of persuasion are worried about the way it is being used