And people wonder how and why I still use my old WindowsPhone.
Earlier this year the Norwegian watchdog produced a
damning report calling out dark pattern design tricks being deployed by
Google and Facebook meant to manipulate users by nudging them toward
“privacy intrusive options.” It also examined Microsoft’s consent flows,
but judged the company to be leaning less heavily on such unfair
tactics.
Among the underhand techniques that the Google-targeted GDPR
complaint, which draws on the earlier report, calls out are allegations
of deceptive click-flow, with the groups noting that a “location
history” setting can be enabled during Android set-up without a user
being aware of it; key settings being both buried in menus (hidden) and
enabled by default; users being presented at the decision point with
insufficient and misleading information; repeat nudges to enable
location tracking even after a user has previously turned it off; and
the bundling of “invasive location tracking” with other unrelated Google
services, such as photo sorting by location.
Just saying...
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