In 2010, British designer Harry Brignull coined a handy new term for an everyday annoyance: dark patterns, meaning digital interfaces that subtly manipulate people. It became a term of art used by ...

When it comes to digital entertainment, international companies often face the challenge of adapting features to comply with different jurisdictions' legal requirements. The use of countdown timers ...

Like snowflakes and people, no two digital enterprises are exactly alike. Digital transformation, as with countless technology initiatives over the decades, will look different from company to company ...

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Researchers develop an AI tool that assesses smartphone interactions and flags patterns associated with vulnerability to ...

The RBI has named and banned 11 specific digital manipulation tactics that banks use on their apps and websites to push ...

When the European Commission presented its Digital Services Act (DSA) proposal in December 2020, it listed beefed up consumer protections as a headline goal for the flagship update to the bloc’s rules ...

Advocate Arvind Singh has submitted a complaint to Mumbai Police seeking a cyber investigation into the Instagram account of ...

For most of human history, our minds have operated in analog mode—thinking in continuous, fluid patterns that reflect the natural world. From reading emotions to making intuitive decisions, this mode ...