deceptive design

Amazon has agreed to simplify the process required for cancelling its Prime membership subscription service across its sites in the European Union, both on desktop and mobile interfaces, following a…

Amazon agrees to drop Prime cancellation ‘dark patterns’ in Europe

Consumer rights groups in Europe have filed a new series of privacy complaints against Google — accusing the advertising giant of deceptive design around the account creation process that they…

Google’s ‘deceptive’ account sign-up process targeted with GDPR complaints

When the European Commission presented its Digital Services Act (DSA) proposal in December 2020, it listed beefed up consumer protections as a headline goal for the flagship update to the…

EU’s digital rule-book reboot could fumble dark patterns ban and trader checks, warns BEUC

The Web Foundation‘s Tech Policy Design Lab is working on an interesting-looking project to counter deceptive design — aka dark patterns* — with the goal of producing a portfolio of…

The Web Foundation is taking on deceptive design