The Norwegian Consumer Council Talks Tech Giants: Deceived Past Times Blueprint (Fb; Goog; Msft)

The press release from Forbrukerrådet.no:

Facebook og Google manipulerer oss til å dele personinformasjon
Publisert 27. juni, 2018 

 And inwards English:

Facebook together with Google steer us into sharing vast amounts of information virtually ourselves, through cunning design, privacy invasive defaults, together with “take it or larn out it”-choices, according to an analysis of the companies’ privacy updates.

As the novel General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is implemented across Europe, users of digital services remove maintain been confronted amongst novel privacy settings through numerous pop-up messages. Unfortunately, The Norwegian Consumer Councils just published analysis demonstrates that companies seem to remove maintain piffling intention of giving users actual choices.

– These companies manipulate us into sharing information virtually ourselves. This shows a lack of honour for their users, together with are circumventing the notion of giving consumers command of their personal data, says Finn Myrstad, manager of digital services inwards the Norwegian Consumer Council.

The Norwegian Consumer Council together with several other consumer together with privacy groups inwards Europe together with the the US are instantly asking European information protection authorities to investigate whether the companies are acting inwards accordance amongst the GDPR together with the US rules.

Sharing past times default
Through the Consumer Council’s analysis of the companies’ privacy pop-ups, it is made evident that consumers are pushed into sharing through;

Standard Settings

Research has shown that users rarely modify pre-selected settings. In many cases, both Facebook together with Google remove maintain educate the to the lowest degree privacy friendly selection every bit the default.

Cunning pattern choices

Sharing of personal information together with the utilization of targeted advertising are presented every bit solely beneficial through wording together with design, oft inwards combination amongst threats of lost functionality if users decline....

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Got that?  Respektløst, disrespectful. They're dissin' us.

And from the study (44 page PDF)

How tech companies utilization night patterns to discourage us from exercising our rights to privacy
1 Summary 

In this report, nosotros analyze a sample of settings inwards Facebook, Google together with Windows 10, together with present how default settings together with night patterns , techniques together with features of interface pattern meant to manipulate users, are used to nudge users towards privacy intrusive options. The findings include privacy intrusive default settings, misleading wording, giving users an illusion of control, hiding away privacy - friendly choices, remove maintain - it - or - larn out - it choices, together with selection architectures where choosing the privacy friendly choice requires to a greater extent than endeavor for the users.

Facebook together with Google remove maintain privacy intrusive defaults, where users who desire the privacy friendly choice remove maintain to larn through a significantly longer process. They fifty-fifty obscure unopen to of these settings together with then that the user cannot know that the to a greater extent than privacy intrusive choice was preselected.

The popups from Facebook, Google together with Windows 10 remove maintain design, symbols together with wording that nudge users away from the privacy friendly choices. Choices are worded to compel users to brand sure enough choices, spell primal inform ation is omitted or downplayed. None of them lets the user freely postpone decisions. Also, Facebook together with Google threaten users amongst loss of functionality or deletion of the user describe of piece of job organization human relationship if the user does non select the privacy intrusive option.

The GDPR educate tings from Facebook, Google together with Windows 10 render users amongst granular choices regarding the collection together with utilization of personal data. At the same time, nosotros observe that the service providers employ numerous tactics inwards companionship to nudge or force consumers toward sharing every bit much information every bit possible.

To complement the analysis, nosotros utilization ii examples of how users are given an illusion of command through privacy settings. Firstly, Facebook gives the user an impression of command over utilization of 3rd political party information to present ads, spell it turns out that the command is much to a greater extent than express than it initially appears. Secondly, Google’s privacy dashboard promises to permit the user easily delete user data, but the dashboard turns out to move hard to navigate, to a greater extent than resembling a maze than a tool for user control....

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Wikipedia on Dark Patterns: 

In graphic together with web design, a dark pattern is "a user interface that has been carefully crafted to play a joke on users into doing things, such every bit buying insurance amongst their purchase or signing upwardly for recurring bills."^[1][2][3] The neologism dark pattern was coined past times Harry Brignull inwards August 2010 amongst the registration of darkpatterns.org, a "pattern library amongst the specific destination of naming together with shaming deceptive user interfaces."^[4][5] ...

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