Dark Patterns: Deception or Simply Bad Design?

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityDark Patterns: Deception or Simply Bad Design?Rossi Arianna, Lenzini Gabriele, Koenig Vincent, Bongard KerstinAbstract: Lately, researchers, journalists, and regulators are devoting attention to dark patterns, defined as "design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering or deceiving users into making decisions that, if fully informed and capable of … Continued

DaPIS: an Ontology-Based Data Protection Icon Set

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Privacy policies are known to be impenetrable and lengthy texts that are hardly read and poorly understood. This is why GDPR introduces provisions to enhance information transparency including icons as visual means to clarify data practices.