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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: Dark Patterns: How The FTC Is Fighting Big Tech Consumer Fraud
Description: Most consumers know what it's like to feel cheated, scammed, and manipulated, and no one does it better, or on a bigger scale, than big tech.
Old scams like "bait and switch", false promises, and teeny-tiny “gotcha” fine print, get new life on a much broader scale when millions of people worldwide find out that without their consent; their private information has been harvested and sold, they've been opted-in to ongoing subscriptions, or they've accidentally signed up for services that no matter how hard they try; they just can't cancel.
But it turns out, there actually are actually people who are w...