GPEN SWEEP 2024
GPEN Sweep finds majority of websites and mobile apps use deceptive design to influence privacy choices.
The Gibraltar Regulatory Authority, as the Information Commissioner, has taken part in the annual Global Privacy Enforcement Network Sweep (the “GPEN Sweep”). The GPEN Sweep saw 26 privacy enforcement authorities from across the world come together to participate. They collectively reviewed more than 1,000 websites and mobile applications and found that nearly all of them employed one or more deceptive design pattern(s) that made it difficult for users to make privacy-protective decisions.