Court cancels FTC click-to-cancel rule on a technicality
Welcome back to the age of dark patterns
Legal09 Jul 2025 | 15
Dark pattern
It takes one click to join Uber One, but quitting might need 32 actions
Which is one reason US regulators just sued the rideshare and delivery giant
Personal Tech22 Apr 2025 | 40
Biden tries to cut through fog of confusion caused by deliberately deceptive customer service tricks
Targets impossible unsubscribes, elusive human assistance, and other wallet-draining time sinks
Public Sector13 Aug 2024 | 46
I spy another mSpy breach: Millions more stalkerware buyers exposed
Infosec in brief Also: Velops routers love plaintext; everything is a dark pattern; Internet Explorer rises from the grave, and more
Security15 Jul 2024 | 8
India warns ecommerce 'basket sneaks' and 'confirm shamers' their days are numbered
Amazon, Google, and Meta helped it to draft guidelines on preventing 'dark patterns'
Software08 Sep 2023 | 19
Amazon Prime too easy to join, too hard to quit, says FTC lawsuit
Updated Dark patterns at Amazon worthy of a Homeric epic? Surely not!
Applications21 Jun 2023 | 70
Biting the hand that feeds IT
