ethics-consent-review

What problem does it solve?

It reviews a UX flow, data practice, or communication pattern to determine whether user consent is genuinely informed, voluntary, and meaningful rather than coerced or manipulated.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Informed test: Checks whether people would practically understand what they’re agreeing to (plain language, material info prominence, scope clarity, and surprise risk).
• Voluntary test: Assesses whether declining is truly easy, uncoerced, and mechanically equivalent to accepting, including effects of bundled consents and pressure tactics.
• Meaningful test: Identifies dark patterns and design choices that steer outcomes (e.g., roach motels, hidden defaults, misdirection, forced continuity) and evaluates the power dynamic.
• Use Case: Apply it to onboarding, checkout, notification/permissions prompts, terms acceptance, and any feature where users can opt in/out or share data.

Quick Start

Run ethics-consent-review on your UX consent moment by describing the exact screen or wording, the default option, what happens on decline, and whether the user can easily choose a different outcome.