EDPB guidelines
Guidelines 03/2022 on deceptive design patterns in social media platform interfaces
- Reference
- EDPB 03/2022
- Issued by
- EDPB
- Status
- Final
- First published
- 21 March 2022
- Final version
- 24 February 2023
- Provisions
- Article 5(1)(a), Article 7, Article 12, Article 25
"First published" is the date the first version was published for consultation (start of the EDPB feedback period), or the publication date where there was no consultation; the plenary adoption is usually a day or a few days earlier.
Note (not the official text)
Version 1 was titled 'dark patterns'.
Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.
Only the document as published by the EDPB is authoritative. This is reference material, not legal advice.