This is an example of a dark pattern: design that manipulates or heavily ... laws and action as the Biden administration’s technology policies and initiatives take shape. California is currently ...

Dark patterns aren’t limited to the Web, either. The Columbia House mail ... service without an adequate reminder. Examples of bad design choices that may be accidental aren’t hard to find.

Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), zeroes in on a phenomenon known as “dark patterns”: The various ways in which Web designers subtly steer users toward completing certain ...