Michael Downey 🚩 @downey@floss.social

#DeceptiveDesign 5/5

1️⃣6️⃣ different consumer organizations in the EU & US have filed a legal complaint against Amazon for its deceptive cancellation process of Amazon Prime:

https://www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-english/amazon-manipulates-customers-to-stay-subscribed/

#DeceptiveDesign 4/5

9️⃣5️⃣% of the 240 top trending apps on Google's Play Store included deceptive patterns in their interfaces, according to a recent study. Half of those apps had 7+ deceptive patterns.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3313831.3376600

#DeceptiveDesign 3/5

💲1️⃣3️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ was spent by Microsoft's LinkedIn to settle a lawsuit over its use of deceptive design to collect new users' email contacts:

https://themarkup.org/2021/06/03/dark-patterns-that-mislead-consumers-are-all-over-the-internet

#DeceptiveDesign 2/5

2️⃣1️⃣% more time is spent by customers to ticketing site StubHub if they are not shown all fees upfront, a pattern known as drip pricing, according to UC Berkeley Professor Steven Tadelis:

"I can’t think of a good reason to allow this practice in any country as the harm to consumers is clear from our study."

https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research/buyer-beware-massive-experiment-shows-why-ticket-sellers-hit-you-with-hidden-fees-drip-pricing/

#DeceptiveDesign 1/5

1️⃣2️⃣ types of "dark patterns" identified by Harry Brignull, from bait and switch to privacy zuckering:

https://www.darkpatterns.org/types-of-dark-pattern

In the ’80s, Susan Headley ran with the best of them—phone phreakers, social engineers, and the most notorious computer #hackers of the era.

Then she disappeared. 💥

https://www.theverge.com/c/22889425/susy-thunder-headley-hackers-phone-phreakers-claire-evans

🤐 Brazil's Supreme Electoral Court is considering a #Telegram ban to fend off fake news ahead of the presidential election in the country later this year.

This follows failed attempts by the court to contact Telegram reps to no avail. It has already entered into partnerships with almost all leading #socialmedia platforms in its attempts to curb fake news and conspiracy theories about the legitimacy of Brazil’s electoral system.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/brazil-electoral-court-could-ban-telegram-app-not-fighting-fake-news-2022-01-20/

📰 ICYMI: A Paris court has ruled that #Twitter must reveal its measures for fighting hate speech, in one of several cases thrashing out whether the French justice system has jurisdiction over the US #SocialMedia giant. The case had been brought by several anti-discrimination groups over what they said was the company's longstanding failure to properly moderate posts.

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-01-french-court-twitter-reveal-online.html

Sorry about the YT link - Invidious was not able to serve up this video for whatever reason.

🌐 Until we start giving a shit and caring for everyone on this planet as fellow humans, we will be able to fix any of the otherwise insurmountable problems like the #pandemic or #ClimateChange.

💭 What will you do today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmrIDK03Hlg

😷 😡 "'Stop making me wear a mask!' I shout, maskless."

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-need-to-get-back-to-normal-i-say-while-i-continue-to-live-my-life-normally-as-i-have-throughout-this-pandemic

♦️💩 "Like most forms of #bullshit in #America, #NFTs have come packaged in a phony populist language of #community and an even phonier rhetoric of #innovation."

Read "NFTs Are, Quite Simply, Bullshit":

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/nfts-fallon-paris-hilton-bored-ape-digital-imagery-commodification

💡 This program creates #OpenSource #cybersecurity training materials for secondary school teachers.

👏🏼 Please take a look, boost, and chip in a few USD if you are able.

https://gofund.me/6c0714b1

#Sweardle day 19 3/4

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https://sweardle.com/

Very good to hear that @ramcq from @gnome & @collabora has been named as chair of the @openuk_uk organization.

TLDR, the all-to-often current state of #infosec at organizations:

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=cP4d74Qk3ac