{"id":962261,"date":"2025-09-17T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962261"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:31:16","slug":"e-commerce-firms-under-govt-lens-for-using-dark-patterns-to-trick-consumers-all-about-these-illegal-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/17\/e-commerce-firms-under-govt-lens-for-using-dark-patterns-to-trick-consumers-all-about-these-illegal-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"E-commerce firms under govt lens for using &#8216;dark patterns&#8217; to trick consumers: All about these illegal tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Government is cracking the whip on e-commerce companies that use \u201cdark patterns\u201d and deceptive design tactics to manipulate consumers into unintended purchases or subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>The Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare told news agency ANI that these practices will be treated as unfair trade and face legal scrutiny which can lead to strict action, including raids, against the violators of the guidelines set by the Department of Consumer Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Government is cracking the whip on e-commerce companies that use \u201cdark patterns\u201d and deceptive design tactics to manipulate consumers into unintended purchases or subscriptions. The Consumer Affairs Secretary Nidhi Khare told news agency ANI that these practices will be treated as unfair trade and face legal scrutiny which can lead to strict action, including raids, against the violators of the guidelines set by the Department of Consumer Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962261","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}