From the General Data Protection Regulation to the California Consumer Privacy Act – and all the other new data protection frameworks arising in the US, Asia and Latin America – navigating the global data protection landscape is a challenge for most organizations. In this virtual series, Cooley practitioners will provide attendees with practical guidance and best practices around managing data protection-related issues while addressing the subject of dark patterns in design. They also will keep participants up to date on recent developments in the ever-evolving regulatory landscape.

Ethical Games is a two-day, single-track online conference and special issue with ACM Games aiming to bring together game academics to advance the debate on ethical design, development, and live operation of digital games with the long-term goal of providing concrete recommendations to the game industry and protecting players more efficiently with evidence-based guidelines. The conference will blend presentations with roundtable discussions (bringing together game academics and industry professionals) and online socialising opportunities.

Videogames use behavioural design strategies, i.e., dark patterns, to increase engagement and drive revenue. These affect consumer behaviour, e.g., extended playtime, and subsequently health, e.g., social well-being. HCI approaches such as motivational design or personalization are central to behavioural design strategies. Some approaches, e.g., guilt tripping of users, are ethically and legally questionable. This workshop aims to explore the ethical, health, and legal implications of behavioural design strategies and integrate interdisciplinary viewpoints, co-develop a road map to address behavioural design, and collect contemporary perspectives on behavioural design.

EDHEC Augmented Law Institute has created the Digital Ethics Officer Certifying Training Program, in partnership with Govern&Law, Seraphin.legal and AFJE. The program is geared at lawyers and legal professionals, data protection officers (DPOs), and consultants and digital experts. It includes among others, a module on transparency and dark patterns taught by Arianna Rossi, and participants are sure to gain skills to aid the implementation of ethical audits and meaningful specifications, compatible with the ‘ethics by design’ approach and identification of unsustainable digital practices.

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.