News & Media 9th Oct 2023

What Are Dark Patterns And How The Government Plans To Curb Them?

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Sweta RajanPartner | Mumbai

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The government has released draft guidelines for dark patterns or tricky design tricks used in digital or online interfaces. Dark patterns aim to deceive users or take away their control, making them do things they don’t want to use disguised advertisements and showing false popularity of products, among other such practices.

Against this backdrop, our Partner Sweta Rajan has been quoted in an article, “What Are Dark Patterns And How The Government Plans To Curb Them?” published by BQ Prime.

Read the article here

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