Little videos are cooking our brains – Vox
This wouldn’t be such a concern if you wanted to seek out awful AI-generated videos. Instead, the slop finds you… read more
Seeing Like a Platform: An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity (Törnberg & Uitermark, 2025)
Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart… read more
(Re)Designing Privacy Literacy in the Age of Generative AI (Woods & Johnson, 2025)
In this article, we propose (re)designing privacy literacy as an essential component of our digital lives in an age of… read more
AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting ‘Illegal Behavior,’ Digital Rights Organizations Say – 404 Media
The complaint also takes issue with confidentiality promised by the chatbots that isn’t backed up in the platforms’ terms of… read more
Dark Patterns Tip Line
The Dark Patterns Tip Line is led by a team of designers, academic researchers, legal experts, policy specialists, and advocacy-minded… read more
I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets – The Guardian
I emailed Tinder requesting my personal data and got back way more than I bargained for.Some 800 pages came back… read more
Dark Patterns – Neil.Fun
Learn about dark patterns with these interactive examples from Neil.Fun: https://neal.fun/dark-patterns/
Chatbots, deepfakes, and voice clones: AI deception for sale – Federal Trade Commission
Most of us spend lots of time looking at things on a device. Thanks to AI tools that create “synthetic… read more
Still trying to quit that gym membership? The FTC is proposing a rule that could help – NPR
The Federal Trade Commission says it receives thousands of complaints every year from consumers plagued by recurring charges that they… read more
The psychological traps of online shopping, explained – Vox
Online retailers have all sorts of tricks for getting consumers to buy more and buy faster. The people who create… read more