Warning! Some online games manipulate players to collect their data

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“We had two supporting lines of inquiry in this study: what players think about games, and what games are really up to with respect to privacy,” said Janne Lindqvist, associate professor of computer science at Aalto. The authors found examples of games that used "dark design," or interface choices that trick users into acting in ways they otherwise wouldn't such as connecting their social media profiles or permitting the exchange of player information with outside parties.

 

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