Question the Friendly Default
Choose the strongest response to a privacy settings screen that preselects broad data sharing.
Privacy onboarding: full sharing is preselected before the user has made a choice. What should Mei recommend before launch? Turn non-essential sharing off by default and ask users to choose each data use with plain benefit and consequence copy. Strong. This changes assumed consent into active choice and aligns with the expectation that privacy-sensitive defaults should not quietly favor data capture. Keep the toggles on but add a sentence saying users can change settings later. Weaker. Later reversibility does not fix the default effect. The user has still been steered before making an informed choice. Keep the defaults because the…
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