Takeaways For Digital Advertising Businesses from the FTC Staff Report on Dark Patterns
October 20, 2022
By Ryan Smith (ryan@thenai.org) On September 15, 2022, the FTC released a staff report (“Staff Report”)1 on dark patterns, based in part on a 2021 workshop for which the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) submitted comments.2 The Staff Report is largely in line with what the NAI has previously published on dark patterns.3 The NAI agrees