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Tales from the Dark Side: Privacy Dark Strategies and Privacy Dark Patterns

September 11, 2025
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Christoph Bösch, Benjamin Erb, F. Kargl, Henning Kopp, Stefan Pfattheicher
Understanding how personal data is abused is as important as understanding privacy-by-design. This research introduces "privacy dark strategies" and "privacy dark patterns," providing a framework to collect, document, and analyze these malicious concepts. By investigating the psychological reasons for their effectiveness, the framework aims to foster awareness, support countermeasures, and contribute to the detection and removal of such approaches from the internet.
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