“Dark patterns” have increasingly been the focus of legislative and regulatory scrutiny. Yet the phrase is never used in business. No business designs a website, mobile app, or business process with ...

On July 10, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the results of two global internet sweeps that examined the prevalence of certain deceptive design practices, or “dark patterns,” within a ...

Warning: Spoilers for Batman: Dark Patterns #1Batman: Dark Patterns has launched its debut issue, and it fills a much-needed gap in the current roster of Batman titles. The majority of titles under DC ...

If you’ve ever found yourself struggling to cancel an online subscription, or to deactivate an account on a website, you may have fallen prey to ‘dark patterns’. The Advertising Standards Authority ...

“When it comes to the digital sphere, we want to make it fair. It’s shocking that on average 60% of websites did not comply with basic consumer rules between 2007 and 2019…. This is why we want to ...

Batman: Dark Patterns promised readers an intriguing premise for DC Comics’ most recognizable character from the start. It would provide brief, three-issue mysteries set in the earliest years of ...

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), along with two other international consumer protection networks, announced on Thursday the results of a study into the use of “dark patterns” — or manipulative ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook One year, four stories, and twelve issues later, Batman’s most haunting storyline in years has ...