An Empirical Analysis of E-Governments’ Cookie Interfaces in 50 Countries

Cookies have been used by websites to store information about user behavior. Although they provide several benefits, including improving experience, can threaten privacy, particularly when use third-party cookies for data analysis. Websites must inform their users what are collected and how through the cookie interface. Thus, it is important understand effects of interface design on behavior verify whether these interfaces with required make an informed decision. In this paper, we evaluated 243 E-Government based well-defined guidelines critical factors designers should consider designing interfaces. To evaluate interfaces’ usability, selected one inspection-based methods called individual expert review method. The results showed that European more compliant adopted guidelines. Surprisingly, than 50% did not a users, while 40% privacy policy. primary finding study over 90% dark patterns in concludes some recommendations help usable