{"id":21648,"date":"2018-06-03T10:09:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T14:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21648"},"modified":"2019-07-05T13:44:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T17:44:17","slug":"facebooks-gdpr-related-dark-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/03\/facebooks-gdpr-related-dark-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&rsquo;s GDPR-Related Dark Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frabcus\/status\/1001029934670929920\">Francis Irving<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frabcus\/status\/1001029934670929920\">\n<p>Facebook actually put <em>fake red dots<\/em> to try and make you think you have messages even if you don&rsquo;t, so you agree to their tracking more hastily. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/noyb.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/complaint-facebook.pdf\">full complaint against Facebook<\/a> - with tricks like that, sorry Facebook, you deserve to be hit hard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/facebook-gdpr-dark-patterns\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/facebook-gdpr-dark-patterns\/\">\n<p>This is pretty sleezy, but also basically what you&rsquo;d expect from a company that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xeophin\/status\/987229370514399232\">misleads users into accepting facial recognition<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/303814886_Tales_from_the_Dark_Side_Privacy_Dark_Strategies_and_Privacy_Dark_Patterns\">guilt trips users who try to deactivate their account<\/a>, and places <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=16769367\">several other barriers to deactivation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/19\/cambridge-analytica-harvested-50-million-facebook-profiles\/\">Cambridge Analytica Harvested 50 Million Facebook Profiles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/04\/avoiding-apple-pays-pestering\/\">Avoiding Apple Pay&rsquo;s Pestering<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Irving: Facebook actually put fake red dots to try and make you think you have messages even if you don&rsquo;t, so you agree to their tracking more hastily. Read full complaint against Facebook - with tricks like that, sorry Facebook, you deserve to be hit hard. Via Nick Heer: This is pretty sleezy, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-06-03T14:09:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"b2eb59e2-825a-4015-ad53-a5d7ed1409b7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-07-05T17:44:22Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AsutZ4oJaQBWtU6XX7RQJtw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1836,25,1776,355,96],"class_list":["post-21648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dark-patterns","tag-facebook","tag-gdpr","tag-privacy","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21649,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21648\/revisions\/21649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}