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Shein faces EU probe over child safety failures and addictive design: European Commission opens formal DSA proceedings against Shein over illegal products, addictive design, and recommender opacity, affecting 145 million EU shoppers. https://ppc.land/shein-faces-eu-probe-over-child-safety-failures-and-addictive-design/ #Shein #EULaw #ChildSafety #AddictiveDesign #ConsumerProtection

TikTok faces EU fines for addictive features

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://dailytimes.com.pk/1447217/tiktok-faces-eu-fines-for-addictive-features/

Engadget (@engadget)

EU가 TikTok이 '중독적 설계(addictive design)'을 사용하고 있다고 지적하며 변경을 요구했다고 보도되었습니다. 플랫폼 설계와 관련한 규제·감독 강화의 일환으로, 디지털 서비스·사용자 보호 측면에서 중요한 정책적 움직임입니다.

https://x.com/engadget/status/2019763225122763122

#eu #tiktok #regulation #ux #addictivedesign

A case to follow. This cuts to the very core of TikTok and other platforms’ business model. The charge is to change. Or pay (up to 6% of turnover) #addictiveDesign #infiniteScrolling #recsys www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

TikTok could be forced to chan...

"Dabei sehen Expertinnen und Experten längst nicht mehr die Nutzerinnen und Nutzern so sehr in der Verantwortung, sondern vielmehr die Plattformen und Konzerne – und auch die Politik."

#addictiveDesign

https://science.orf.at/stories/3233444/

So cool how @bitsoffreedom keeps up the pressure against #Meta #Facebook #Instagram in the Dutch courts to ensure compliance with the #DigitalServicesAct 💪

New compliance deadline to redesign the apps is 31 December!

https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/10/28/judge-grants-meta-limited-postponement-in-bits-of-freedom-lawsuit/

#DSA #DigitalRights #DeceptiveDesign #AddictiveDesign

@hanghuhn Was ist der richtige Umgang und kann man 14-Jährigen zutrauen, dass sie sich gegen das wehren können, was die klügsten Köpfe des Silicon Valley gegen sie auffahren? #AddictiveDesign

New #wjds paper published:

Author Xin Ye explores how online platforms use manipulative, attention-grabbing tactics that undermine user autonomy. Current #EU laws fall short - this study offers 3 key policy fixes.

The paper is part of a special issue on "Well-being in the Digital World"

@dougaparry #DarkPatterns #AddictiveDesign #TechEthics #DigitalRights #PlatformRegulation #GDPR #DSA #research #law #socialscience #computerscience

Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, vol 5, issue 3. Xin Ye, Dark Patterns and Addictive Designs

"The second approach is much broader, covering every social media user, and that’s tackling the way the platforms function. We have plenty of reporting and research that shows social media platforms are designed to be addictive — to ensure people spend more time on the app, thus generating more advertising profits. Social media platforms learned techniques from gambling companies to keep users hooked by using likes, notifications, and other methods to entice people to keep coming back, triggering dopamine responses that their brains craved even if the platforms made them feel worse at the same time.

Tackling those addiction design practices, dark patterns in interface design that nudge people to perform certain actions, and the way the platforms’ algorithms spread and amplify certain (often extreme or sensationalist) content to keep people engaged is a more difficult task than a hard age limit. Despite the country’s decision to move forward with an age limit, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has already been examining and reporting on platform design issues and the issues with algorithmic recommendation systems.

If we’re serious about minimizing the harms of social media platforms, design interventions and algorithmic limits are a much more promising approach."

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/social-media-must-be-reined-in

#SocialMedia #AddictiveDesign #Algorithms #BigTech #DarkPatterns #AgeVerification #NannyState

@peterhense und @spiritlegal schlagen wieder zu: Class Action gegen #X und #TikTok wegen #Desinformation, #AddictiveDesign und rechtswidrigem #Profiling. Man kann die Arbeit dieser Truppe nie genug hervorheben und wenn die Vorbereitungen abgeschlossen sind kann man sich der Klage auch noch anschließen.

https://www.spiritlegal.com/de/aktuelles/details/pressemitteilung-bewaehrungsprobe-fuer-dsa-dsgvo-und-ai-act.html

I'd love to read more about #addictivedesign and especially from a #gamedesign perspective and how it has been abused, especially given the accepted 'wisdom' around nudges and positive reinforcement, here is a #fediversefind https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/4-47/v2. #BehaviourChange #games

Whether it is Várhelyi or someone else, the next health commissioner must urgently build on this work and make the huge physical, psychological and neurological costs of #AddictiveDesign a priority issue for the term ahead

There’s already a ton of evidence linking the #AddictiveDesign of #BigTech platforms to health problems, particularly in children and young people: anxiety and depression, lower attention span, loss of grey matter in the brain to name a few

https://bit.ly/40BtES9