Security News > 2018 > June > How Facebook and Google nudge users to make anti-privacy choices

Facebook, Google and Microsoft use design techniques and tricks to steer users toward sharing more information about themselves to benefit those businesses, the Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) has shown. Among these so-called “dark patterns” are anti-privacy default settings, confusing layouts, illusions of choice, and design choices (positioning, visual cues, etc.). Privacy intrusive defaults “Facebook and Google have privacy intrusive defaults, where users who want the privacy friendly option have to go through a significantly longer … More → The post How Facebook and Google nudge users to make anti-privacy choices appeared first on Help Net Security.

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