"However, they may be tempted to spend dark side points, and suffer the consequences"

This is in the Destiny Point section, which makes me wonder if I missed something. I was under the impression that PCs and their allies used Light Side Destiny Points which then flipped to Dark Side Destiny points. The GM was the only one with access to the Dark Side Destiny pool. Is this some rules confusion between Destiny and Force points? Am I misreading this section of the rules?

I think this is one of those cases of hey its Beta they made a mistake. The rules involving destiny points on pg 22 seem to clearly indicate that Light Side destiny points are for players and Dark Side are for the GM.

It could be that they were thinking about the dark side force points that a player could use when they included that comment or it could be that players can use the Dark Side destiny points as well so that they are never "locked out" of destiny points so to speak. This could come at some cost that will be further detailed when they release the book that deals more closely with the force; however I would read it as a typo and in my group the players use only the Light Side destiny points.

That's basically what I figured. I see that Force users do still have that temptation, so it looks like a "Whoops! Beta!" item. Thanks for helping out.