The Privacy Research Day is an opportunity to build bridges between researchers and regulators. During the day, experts from different fields will present their work and discuss its implications for regulation – and vice versa. It is aimed at a wide audience familiar with privacy and data protection. The objective is to create an unprecedented exchange between legal experts, computer scientists, designers and social science researchers. This 2nd edition coincides with the 5th anniversary of the GDPR, and so this event will involve assessing its contributions, how they are perceived, how free and informed the consent is, dark patterns, studies of user expectations, among other things.

The IAPP ANZ Summit attracts privacy professionals from Australia, New Zealand and beyond. The event is currently accepting proposals from potential speakers who desire to share their knowledge with an engaged audience of privacy professionals until the 9th of April, 2023. The summit encourages proposals from topics relating to dark patterns and the dark web, as well as other topics like adtech and online advertising, privacy in mergers and acquisitions, ransomware, international data transfers, surveillance, APAC regulatory developments, privacy in the metaverse, consumer rights, cyber security, biometrics, among other things.

In this 4-week-long live course with Luiza Jarovsky, participants will learn about dark patterns, how they affect user privacy, and what can be done to avoid them. By exploring examples and the latest reports, legislations, case studies, and fines, they will be able to understand the impact that the product design has on privacy compliance, the regulatory background around it, and how to revert dark patterns in privacy into Privacy-Enhancing Design. Week 1 will cover: introduction, dark patterns and dark patterns in privacy, week 2: dark patterns and the law as well as recent case studies, week 3 will feature user vulnerabilities, and week 4, privacy-enhancing design.

From the Law to the Internet user's click on a cookie banner, what are the stages in the production of "consent" on the Web, and what are the criteria for its validity within the meaning of the law? How do the requirements of the latter transform (or not) the market for advertising on the Web, and its business models? These are all questions that will be addressed during this symposium. Natalia Bielova will also be discussing her work on consent and dark patterns, with the presentation in English.

Future Law Experience is the event where you will connect with the most innovative minds in the legal market. It is the unprecedented opportunity to be in touch with the biggest trends in Law in the 4.0 reality and learn in practice about all the new initiatives in the field of law. This event will feature a talk by Marie Potel-Saville titled 'How to leverage Legal Design for communication without dark patterns with a focus on sustainable growth?

The event will take place on Tuesday 18 April at Linklaters. It will feature discussions on “dark patterns” (interfaces that deceive and manipulate users): why people should care, the difference between digital ads/marketing and dark patterns, the risks incurred and how to solve them. It also will feature special guest speaker, Marie Potel-Saville, who will share her experience in the field of “Legal Design” and explore the latest trends and innovations in this rapidly growing area. The session will cover topics such as the impact of legal design on access to justice, the role of technology in legal design, and best practices for designing legal services that meet the needs of diverse users, e.g. in data privacy, compliance, contracts and litigation.

Panelists will discuss their methodological approaches, key research questions to be considered in this emerging area of dark patterns, and necessary connections between and among disciplinary perspectives to engage with the diverse constituencies that frame their creation, use, and impacts.

Building on this convergent and trans-disciplinary research area of dark patterns, the aims of this SIG are to: 1) Provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to address methodologies for detecting, characterizing, and regulating dark patterns; 2) Identify opportunities for additional empirical work to characterize and demonstrate harms related to dark patterns; and 3) Aid in convergence among HCI, design, computational, regulatory, and legal perspectives on dark patterns. These goals will enable an internationally-diverse, engaged, and impactful research community to address the threats of dark patterns on digital systems.

This discussion will address concerns about how we might detect, test, measure and regulate digital influences reliably when they are so varied, while identifying what constitutes manipulation is often based on more or less paternalistic views. It also will aim to consider • Attributes we can leverage to reliably measure the presence of dark patterns in digital services • Which legal, technical and design instruments we need to quantify dark patterns’ harms at large • How we might determine the risks engendered by dark patterns and whether there are particularly vulnerable users • How might we detect manipulation and potential for harm in emerging technologies?

This panel contextualises deceptive design through the lenses of regulation and fundamental rights, while offering insights into how the EU’s digital design acquis could be enforced to fight online manipulation. It considers: • Is the emerging legal regime of the EU for regulating digital design (e.g. DSA, UCPD, GDPR, AI Act) sufficient to regulate manipulation? • How do we develop a test for courts to determine if users are affected by the use of deceptive design or in the alternative, should regulators embrace the development of a legal test to determine online manipulation? • What is the relationship between profiling and deceptive design, and how does this relationship affect the regulation of deceptive design? • What is the role of fundamental rights in regulating deceptive design?