{"id":823590,"date":"2024-06-19T09:21:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T03:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=823590"},"modified":"2024-06-19T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T04:31:27","slug":"consumer-affairs-secretary-warns-e-commerce-sites-on-dark-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/19\/consumer-affairs-secretary-warns-e-commerce-sites-on-dark-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer affairs secretary warns e-commerce sites on dark patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA) saw the demonstration of a tool being developed to identify dark patterns used by websites, including e-commerce platforms, on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The government has been working towards eliminating the usage of dark patterns by e-commerce platforms. <\/p>\n<p>Terming them &#8220;unfair trade practices&#8221;, Nidhi Khare, secretary, DoCA, cautioned e-commerce platforms against using dark patterns, adding that they violate consumer rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA) saw the demonstration of a tool being developed to identify dark patterns used by websites, including e-commerce platforms, on Tuesday. The government has been working towards eliminating the usage of dark patterns by e-commerce platforms. Terming them &#8220;unfair trade practices&#8221;, Nidhi Khare, secretary, DoCA, cautioned e-commerce platforms against using dark patterns, adding that they violate consumer rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}