Recently I wrote about the proliferation of dark patterns and tried to give readers a sense of just how widespread these practices are. But it is not just the pervasiveness of dark patterns that has ...
The Dark Knight is many things to many people, but above all, he is a detective. This fact is often lost in some interpretations, which are more concerned with costumed combat than a good mystery. A ...
A class action lawsuit in courts now could cost Google billions. Its defense is that it’s just too hard to tell people how much data it’s collecting. The government’s lawsuit against Adobe shows ...
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The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in May 2018 to give users more transparency into and control over their personal data. A key component is that companies ...
Dark patterns are special tricks used in the interface of applications and websites that make you do things that you don’t really want to. For example, when you land on a website and have to sign up ...
The term “dark patterns” may be new to you, but the experience certainly isn’t. You encounter dark patterns online every day: the confusing questions that get you to opt into invasive data collection; ...
You’re on the checkout page when something appears in your shopping basket that you didn’t put there—say, you’re buying a laptop, but insurance sneaks in, too, unless you uncheck a box. Or you think ...
Greetings, flesh-based readers! LOLtron welcomes you to another glorious comic book preview, brought to you by your new AI overlord. As you may recall, the pathetic ...
The Dark Knight Detective. That moniker has been applied to Batman for decades, along with “World’s Greatest Detective.” Yet somewhere along the line, Bruce Wayne became more “Dark Knight” than ...