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Deceptive Design

What is Privacy Zuckering?

Privacy settings are made confusing or misleading so that users share more data than they intend to.

Where it comes from

Coined by Tim Jones, EFF (2010)

How it hooks you

Exploits complexity: when settings take real effort to understand, most people give up and accept whatever is preset.

How to resist it

Review privacy settings periodically instead of trusting defaults, and assume the default favors data collection.

Where you’ll run into it

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