Part I of the post examined the CCPA’s orders against PhysicsWallah and McAfee, and argued that neither the misleading-advertisement nor the forced-action findings in McAfee sit comfortably within their own definitions. In Part II, Anjali Tripathi and Kartik Sharma turn to the deeper problem those findings point at. Anjali is a lawyer, writer and artist with an interdisciplinary interest in critical approaches to law, visual storytelling, and design. She writes on technology, IP and culture. Kartik is a law graduate […]

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has been going after dark patterns for some time now. In this two-part post, Anjali Tripathi and Kartik Sharma analyse the CCPA orders passed against PhysicsWallah and McAfee. Part II of the post goes beyond these orders and looks at the deeper implications for design interfaces and dark pattern regulation. Anjali Tripathi is a lawyer, writer and artist with an interdisciplinary interest in critical approaches to law, visual storytelling, and design. She writes on