[sf-lug] A pdf file about Social Media and how users are herded into giving up privacy...

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bobbie Sellers (bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com):

> This is the only credit I could find:
> The Norwegian Consumer Council is an interest organisation for consumers
> funded by the Norwegian government. Part of our work is to promote
> consumer rights such as privacy, security and balanced contracts in
> digital products and services.

Indeed they are.  Their name in Norsk, ForbrukerRådet, directly
translates as 'Consumer Agency'.  And currently, in addition to
producing this report, they're combining with other European data
organisations to ask the European Data Protection Authority to assess
whether the companies' practices are in line with privacy regulations:

https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-regarding-how-tech-companies-nudge-users-into-choosing-the-less-privacy-friendly-options.pdf

>     Original message:
> The findings include privacy intrusive default settings, misleading
> wording, giving users an illusion of control, hiding away
> privacy-friendly choices, take-it-or-leave-it choices, and choice
> architectures where choosing the privacy friendly option requires more
> effort for the users.
> 
> <https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf>

Quite so.