Deceived by design

27. juni, 2018

How tech companies use dark patterns to discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy

In this report, we analyze a sample of settings in Facebook, Google and
Windows 10, and show how default settings and dark patterns, techniques and
features of interface design meant to manipulate users, are used to nudge users
towards privacy intrusive options. The findings include privacy intrusive default
settings, misleading wording, giving users an illusion of control, hiding away
privacy-friendly choices, take-it-or-leave-it choices, and choice architectures
where choosing the privacy friendly option requires more effort for the users.