{"id":840228,"date":"2024-08-02T10:25:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T04:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=840228"},"modified":"2024-08-02T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T05:08:54","slug":"79-of-indian-apps-trick-users-into-giving-up-their-privacy-reveals-asci-parallel-hq-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/02\/79-of-indian-apps-trick-users-into-giving-up-their-privacy-reveals-asci-parallel-hq-study\/","title":{"rendered":"79% of Indian apps trick users into giving up their privacy, reveals ASCI-Parallel HQ study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 79 per cent of Indian apps trick users into giving away their personal data, according to a study that was jointly conducted by the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) and UI\/UX design company Parallel HQ.<\/p>\n<p>The study published on Thursday, August 1, identified deceptive or dark patterns in more than 50 Indian apps across sectors such as e-commerce, health, and fintech as well as cab-booking services and delivery platforms with a total of 21 billion downloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 79 per cent of Indian apps trick users into giving away their personal data, according to a study that was jointly conducted by the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) and UI\/UX design company Parallel HQ. The study published on Thursday, August 1, identified deceptive or dark patterns in more than 50 Indian apps across sectors such as e-commerce, health, and fintech as well as cab-booking services and delivery platforms with a total of 21 billion downloads.<\/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-840228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840228","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=840228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}