Christine Desrosiers (Boltive): Privacy Tech spotlight V - understanding Manipulative Design and rolling out comprehensive client-side monitoring

What is “manipulative design”? How does this concept differ from “dark patterns”? How could we expand website and mobile app monitoring to a company’s ad stack? 

Boltive’s Christine Desrosiers has joined us for another Privacy Tech interview. She is an operations and product professional with 20 years of experience building best-in-class publisher ad stacks and ops teams, and integrating ad and site stacks with Privacy Tech. She is involved in a number of industry working groups and advisory boards, working to raise the bar on privacy, security and transparency. 

References:

• Christine Desrosiers on LinkedIn

• Boltive: monitor security and privacy compliance across the consumer front end (including publishing and AdTech)

• Jessica B. Lee, Chair of Loeb & Loeb LLP’s Privacy, Security & Data Innovations practice

• Global Privacy Enforcement Network: 2024 “sweep” on deceptive design patterns

• FTC, ICPEN, GPEN Announce Results of Review of Use of Dark Patterns Affecting Subscription Services, Privacy (FTC, July 2024)

• Bringing Dark Patterns to Light (FTC, September 2022)

• Daniel Solove, A Taxonomy of Privacy (UPenn Law Review, January 2006) - see “decisional interference”

• Website Privacy Controls (New York State Attorney General)

• FTC study finds ‘dark patterns’ used by a majority of subscription apps and websites (TechCrunch, July 2024)

• FTC vs. Amazon (“Roach Motel” pattern through the internally called “Illiad” process for consumers to cancel their Amazon Prime membership)

• California SB 690: A new hope for CIPA litigation overload? (Norton Rose Fulbright)

• Daniel Solove: On Privacy and Technology (Masters of Privacy, March 2025)

• Max Anderson (Ketch): Privacy Tech spotlight I – the future of CMPs, value vs. hype in privacy compliance SaaS (Masters of Privacy, April 2025)

• Daniel Barber (DataGrail): Privacy Tech spotlight II – widespread non-compliance, opt-out challenges, and shadow AI (Masters of Privacy, May 2025)

• Cillian Kieran (Ethyca): Privacy Tech spotlight III – compliance as an engineering challenge (Masters of Privacy, June 2025)

• Vaibhav Antil (Privado): Privacy Tech spotlight IV - from trust to evidence (Masters of Privacy, July 2025)