Tackling Dark Patterns Online. Legal Design IRL: Marie Potel-Saville from Amurabi

Did you download a new app or program in the last month? Did you get a box with tiny terms and conditions with “Accept All” as your only option if you wanted to use it?

That’s a dark pattern. An interface that deceives people like us to take action even if it’s not in our best interests. ? A big one is ticking a box to accept terms and conditions only to find you’re automatically subscribed to a newsletter.

We’ve all had that, right?

This week on Legal Design Thinking IRL I spoke with Marie Potel-Saville. Marie is the founder of Amurabi, an award-winning legal innovation studio, and www.fairpatterns.com, a platform dedicated to fighting against dark patterns and training all stakeholders to avoid them. She is an international keynote speaker in human-centric law and legal innovation by design: IAPP Global Privacy Summit, W@Privacy, Computer Privacy and Data Protection, Legal Design Summit, and LegalGeek.

We talked about the dark patterns of the internet, how to identify them and how she’s leveraging legal design to create fair patterns for users.

?? Watch the video to learn how legal design is paving the way for fairer interaction with businesses online, the laws governing dark patterns and how we’ve been conditioned to “click the big green button”.

And how to stop it.

Once you’ve listened you’ll see the dark patterns everywhere.

?? Come along next Wednesday at 8 am ET on LinkedIn for my next chat on Legal Design IRL.

What dark patterns did?you?see?today?