What is “manipulative design”? How does this concept differ from “dark patterns”? How could we expand website and mobile app monitoring to a company’s ad stack?

Boltive’s Christine Desrosiers has joined us for another Privacy Tech interview. She is an operations and product professional with 20 years of experience building best-in-class publisher ad stacks and ops teams, and integrating ad and site stacks with Privacy Tech. She is involved in a number of industry working groups and advisory boards, working to raise the bar on privacy, security and transparency.

References:

Christine Desrosiers on LinkedIn
Boltive: monitor security and privacy compliance across the consumer front end (including publishing and AdTech)
Jessica B. Lee, Chair of Loeb & Loeb LLP’s Privacy, Security & Data Innovations practice
Global Privacy Enforcement Network: 2024 “sweep” on deceptive design patterns
FTC, ICPEN, GPEN Announce Results of Review of Use of Dark Patterns Affecting Subscription Services, Privacy (FTC, July 2024)
Bringing Dark Patterns to Light (FTC, September 2022)
Daniel Solove, A Taxonomy of Privacy (UPenn Law Review, January 2006) - see “decisional interference”
Website Privacy Controls (New York State Attorney General)
FTC study finds ‘dark patterns’ used by a majority of subscription apps and websites (TechCrunch, July 2024)
FTC vs. Amazon (“Roach Motel” pattern through the internally called “Illiad” process for consumers to cancel their Amazon Prime membership)
California SB 690: A new hope for CIPA litigation overload? (Norton Rose Fulbright)
Daniel Solove: On Privacy and Technology (Masters of Privacy, March 2025)
Max Anderson (Ketch): Privacy Tech spotlight I – the future of CMPs, value vs. hype in privacy compliance SaaS (Masters of Privacy, April 2025)
Daniel Barber (DataGrail): Privacy Tech spotlight II – widespread non-compliance, opt-out challenges, and shadow AI (Masters of Privacy, May 2025)
Cillian Kieran (Ethyca): Privacy Tech spotlight III – compliance as an engineering challenge (Masters of Privacy, June 2025)
Vaibhav Antil (Privado): Privacy Tech spotlight IV - from trust to evidence (Masters of Privacy, July 2025)

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