{"id":823835,"date":"2024-06-19T10:29:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T04:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=823835"},"modified":"2024-06-19T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T05:25:18","slug":"consumer-affairs-ministry-cautions-e-commerce-platforms-against-deceptive-dark-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/06\/19\/consumer-affairs-ministry-cautions-e-commerce-platforms-against-deceptive-dark-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Affairs Ministry cautions e-commerce platforms against deceptive dark patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Consumer Affairs cautioned e-commerce platforms on Tuesday against use of use of deceptive user interface designs also known as \u201cdark patterns\u201d as it will be considered as \u201cunfair trade practice\u201d and violation of consumer rights.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a stakeholder session, Nidhi Khare, Secretary, DoCA stressed on the need to refrain from using such deceptive designs that may mislead consumers into making unintended purchases or subscriptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Consumer Affairs cautioned e-commerce platforms on Tuesday against use of use of deceptive user interface designs also known as \u201cdark patterns\u201d as it will be considered as \u201cunfair trade practice\u201d and violation of consumer rights. Addressing a stakeholder session, Nidhi Khare, Secretary, DoCA stressed on the need to refrain from using such deceptive designs that may mislead consumers into making unintended purchases or subscriptions.<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823835","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=823835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}