In an opinion published on Tuesday 24 February, EDRi, the digital rights defence collective, laid the foundations for what the future legislation on digital fairness, the ‘Digital Fairness Act’ (DFA) should look like: “a new Regulation on structural fairness”.
According to the organisation, the DFA should be designed as a legislative response to the “structural problems” posed by ‘dark patterns’ (manipulative or misleading Internet interfaces) and addictive designs....