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University of Chicago Law School professor who writes about privacy law, property theory, and consumer contracts
Jun 28, 2020 21 tweets 5 min read
Since #TheVillages (FL) is trending today thanks to a presidential tweet, here's a serious discussion of how one of the US's newest large communities is also its whitest. The Villages is 2% Black or Latino in a very racially diverse part of Florida. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… (1/x) If you missed it, here is the tweet to the video, re-tweeted by POTUS, in which a pro-Trump golf-cart driver shouts "white power!" I assume POTUS's tweet will come down before long. (2/x)
Aug 7, 2019 12 tweets 10 min read
Attention: If you are interested in #DarkPatterns (manipulative UX interfaces) or #Sludge (evil nudges), Jamie Luguri and I have an eye-opening new paper for you. (1/12)
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… As best we can tell it’s the first publicly available research to test experimentally how effective dark patterns are at manipulating consumers into signing up for services they do not want. (2/12)