Dark patterns are (evil) design nudges that steer people’s behaviour through persuasive interface design. Increasingly found in cookie consent requests, they possibly undermine principles of EU privacy law. In two preregistered online experiments we investigated the effects three common (default, aesthetic manipulation, obstruction) on users’ decisions and their perception control over personal...

C onsider the fine coordination between the eye and the hand of a young child who picks a cookie out of a jar. Although the cookies are roughly uniform in size and shape, the pile of cookies at the top of the jar is a jumble of visual cues, a rugged topography from which the child must extract enough information to determine what part of the visual or tactile field can be ascribed to the single...

Cookie banners are devices implemented by websites to allow users manage their privacy settings with respect the use of cookies. They part a user’s daily web browsing experience since legislation in Europe requires show such notices. In this paper, we carry out large-scale study more than 17,000 including 7,500 cookie Greece and UK determine compliance tracking transparency levels. Our analysis...

This paper describes an online survey that was conducted to explore typical Internet users’ awareness and knowledge of specific technologies that relate to their security and privacy when using a Web browser to access the Internet. The survey was conducted using an anonymous, online questionnaire. Over a four month period, 237 individuals completed the questionnaire. Respondents were predominat...

The effect of substitution of black glutinous rice flour for normal wheat flour on batter and cake properties was determined. Black glutinous rice flour was used to substitute 30, 50, 70 and 100% of wheat flour in a control cake formulation. Experimental data showed that pasting temperature, peak viscosity, final viscosity, breakdown and setback of all black glutinous rice and mixes flour sampl...

We present a system, WatchTheWatchers or wtw, that enables a web user to monitor how much information web servers and other entities might be able to collect and store about her. It accomplishes this by examining and storing cookies, form data, and request patterns. Here we present a design and describe the current partial implementation.