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Lawmakers take aim at insidious digital “dark patterns”

Enlarge (credit: Lobanovgo | Getty Images) In 2010, British designer Harry Brignull coined a handy new term for an everyday annoyance: dark patterns, meaning digital interfaces that subtly manipulate people. It became a term of art used by privacy campaigners and researchers. Now, more than a decade later, the coinage is gaining new, legal, heft. […]