Digital Fairness Act: EU Moves to Outlaw Dark Patterns and Subscription Traps
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Berliner Morgenpost
Quit with a few clicks, fewer tricks in online shopping: the EU is planning new consumer rights. Publishers' associations are already sounding the alarm.
The European Commission has presented this Wednesday a legislative proposal to strengthen consumer protection on the Internet, with measures that include the prohibition of payment reward boxes in video games for minors, new restrictions on subscriptions that are automatically renewed without the consent of users and the elimination of misleading commercial practices that seek to encourage purchases.Continue reading....
The EU Commission is planning a far-reaching package for more consumer rights when it comes to gaming, online shopping or ticketing. Consumers should be more strongly protected from manipulative "Dark Patterns".
The Commission proposes to put an end to the mechanisms that manipulate the consumer to encourage spending.
The European Commission on Wednesday presented a proposal for the Digital Fairness Act, a major update to European Union (EU) consumer protection rules that aims to ensure that EU consumers enjoy the same high level of protection online as they do offline.
Digital Fairness Act: EU moves to outlaw dark patterns and subscription traps
The European Commission proposed today the Digital Fairness Act, a consumer rulebook that would ban loot boxes for minors, blacklist manipulative interface design, and put a termination button on every online subscription. The proposal would repeal the EU’s 2005 Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and replace it with a directly applicable regulation, swapping 27 national rulebooks […] This story continues at The Next Web
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