What Jessamyn West thinks about design

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Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.

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   Our readingDeceptive software design makes declining a personal-data request harder to find than agreeing to it.

   Their wordsDeceptive patterns built into software designs means that the way to say "no" to a software's request (for your personal details) is often smaller and harder to see than the one where you input your personal data.

   ↗Oral testimony for the Vermont data privacy and online surveillance billlibrarian.net 2nd of 3 in this piece