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Security and privacy
privacy policy analysis
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
16 positive, 31 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 16 critical, out of 68 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Idea: 8 for, 4 againstExecution: 1 for, 5 againstDesign: 1 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful, important work protecting data privacy
From 3 comments
You're doing incredibly noble work. Ive bookmarked the site and will make great use of it. Thank you for working hard to protect data privacy, I hope you never stop.
R888D0 on HNI will join the chorus of great work. I love it. It may even make some people more privacy conscious ( very few people read those -- usually the ones who wrote it ).
A4ET8a8uTh0 on HNVery creative project! Congratulations!!
helloiloveyou on HN
Interesting use of NLP on privacy policies
From 2 comments
Very nice! The fact you mentioned Tinder's T+C on Twitter got my attention.
Pete-Codes on HNHi there. This is really neat. It reminds me of a talk I listened to recently on digital privacy, where the guy was using the price of "privacy products" as a way to measure how…
tboyd47 on HN
Objections
Scoring bugs, such as Telegram scoring above 100%
From 3 comments
Telegram has a 105% score? Is that expected or a bug?
the_watcher on HNI'm slightly puzzled that Telegram is scoring more than 100%. What am I missing?
Angostura on HNA bug in the scoring algorithm that I need to fix
rameerez on HN
Site errors and slow load under traffic, including SSL error
From 2 comments
I get ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR
paktek123 on HNThis just hit the frontpage so the server might be a bit overloaded, I'm sorry. Trying to resize resources right now. Thanks for the heads up, in the long term (ideally) noise…
rameerez on HN
Training game gives context-free snippets and includes non-privacy sentences
From 3 comments
The "game" (training) that asks you to analyse "privacy threats" is a bit strange. It feels like it takes two random excerpts from a privacy policy and asks you to compare them,…
foxes on HNI’m trying to help teach the AI, but some options don’t have to do with privacy at all. For instance, I got (option A): ``` The Games Press Web site can, optionally, store a…
1f60c on HNI went to the homepage and ctrl-clicked a company card (Mozilla) to open the details in a new tab. Instead, the site jacked my ctrl-click and instead tried to navigate to the…
the_pwner224 on HN
Detailed sentences and full policy hidden behind email prompt
From 2 comments
This is a good tool, but the execution of the website is disappointing. 1. Only showing excerpts of the highest threat levels. Trying to view the less severe threats asks us to…
BrS96bVxXBLzf5B on HNI went to the homepage and ctrl-clicked a company card (Mozilla) to open the details in a new tab. Instead, the site jacked my ctrl-click and instead tried to navigate to the…
the_pwner224 on HN
Requests
Browser extension showing scores
From 2 comments
A great idea. Some ideas for features: - Keep a timeline of privacy policy changes, being able to compare scores between 2 versions. - Subscribe to notifications for changes in…
29athrowaway on HNGreat work! Would also work as a browser plugin.
verbify on HN
Sort by grade and search by name; hide bad scores on first page
From 1 comment
Great work. Thank you. If I may, don't show bad scored results in the first page. Bad advertising is still advertising, and we all assume they are all bad anyway. I understand…
andrerm on HN
Track policy changes over time and notify on score changes
From 1 comment
A great idea. Some ideas for features: - Keep a timeline of privacy policy changes, being able to compare scores between 2 versions. - Subscribe to notifications for changes in…
29athrowaway on HN
Non-JavaScript fallback
From 1 comment
Great website. Quick note - your site doesn't functions without javascript. Having enabled it and trawled through it I see no reason to require js to be enabled. Adding a non-js…
dastx on HN
Questions
Whether the thesis or paper has been published
From 1 comment
I love the work, and it is directly applicable to the work I am doing now. Have you published your thesis?
jbduler on HN
How the project compares to Firefox Monitor
From 1 comment
How are you better than Firefox Monitor?
godelmachine on HN
Whether one variable dominates the score
From 1 comment
Hi there. This is really neat. It reminds me of a talk I listened to recently on digital privacy, where the guy was using the price of "privacy products" as a way to measure how…
tboyd47 on HN
Alternatives named
PrivacySpy
From 1 comment
Hi. A related project that takes a more human-powered approach is PrivacySpy (https://privacyspy.org). Would be neat to see how these tools intersect. PrivacySpy is open source,…
epoch_100 on HN
ToS;DR
From 2 comments
This is great but like tosdr.org before it, what does it tell people they already don't assume to be true? I use tosdr only to often keep ignoring what it's telling me. Also, I'm…
ignoramous on HNVery cool! Reminds me of https://tldrlegal.com/ and https://fossa.com/.
acgan on HN
PrivacyParrot
From 1 comment
Hello! http://www.privacyparrot.com/ Made a similar project many moons ago and is still kicking along. Thanks all on HN for the feedback.
michaelaiello on HN