The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) on June 05, 2025, issued the notification regarding the Advisory in terms of Consumer Protection Act, 2019 on Self-Audit by E-Commerce Platforms for detecting the Dark Patterns on their platforms to create a fair, ethical, and consumer-centric digital ecosystem.
The following has been stated namely: -
• All e-commerce platforms are advised to take necessary steps to ensure that their platforms do not engage in deceptive and unfair trade practice which are in the nature of Dark Patterns.
• All e-commerce platforms are advised to conduct self-audits to identify dark patterns, within 3 months from June 05, 2025, and take necessary steps to ensure that their platforms are free from such dark patterns.
• The e commerce platforms, based on the self-audit reports, are also encouraged to give self-declarations that their platform is not indulging in any dark patterns.
• The self-declarations by the platforms will enable fair digital ecosystem along with building trust between consumers and e-commerce platforms.
[Notification No. CCPA-1/1/2023-ССРА]
