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Re: Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

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Post by rameerez »

epoch_100 wrote: post #34
rameerez wrote: post #2

Hi guys! So as basis for my thesis on AI and NLP I've been working on a RRN-based text classifier that basically reads and analyzes privacy policies. It understands that "we don't share your data with third parties" is privacy friendly while "we may share your data with anyone" is a potential threat. I've then created this website with a bunch of analyzed services to showcase the most relevant info about each service…

For a site trying to fight for privacy, don't you think it would be better to not use Google Analytics to track the people who visit your site?

Yes, definitely. I mention it in Guard's own privacy policy, I don't like using it either, but reasons are: (a) it's the simplest and as far as I know one of the few free analytics tools available, (b) not having a measure of the website activity will make me effectively blind and unable to make decisions, (c) I don't send any personally identifiable event (and, for this matter, I don't send any events apart from page loaded events). I'm also open to suggestions to replace GA.

Re: Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

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Post by wccrawford »

notyourwork wrote: post #44
simongr3dal wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More and more websites are so advanced that they can’t even use an tag anymore. Instead they do some convoluted onclick-scripting that breaks all standard behavior and accessibility functionality.

I think complicated is a better choice than advanced. Intentionally complicated without adding value in a lot of cases.

I'm sure "advanced" was sarcasm.

Re: Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

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Post by rameerez »

brianberns wrote: post #36
rameerez wrote: post #2

Hi guys! So as basis for my thesis on AI and NLP I've been working on a RRN-based text classifier that basically reads and analyzes privacy policies. It understands that "we don't share your data with third parties" is privacy friendly while "we may share your data with anyone" is a potential threat. I've then created this website with a bunch of analyzed services to showcase the most relevant info about each service…

How did you create a data set large and accurate enough to be useful in training a model?

Some friends run an AI bootcamp and helped me finding the initial set of users to help me with labelling. Initial labelled data was generated mostly through them, both manually labelling and with the approach described in https://useguard.com/experiment Also, the model I'm using relies heavily in transfer learning and achieves very reasonable results with few labelled items (the paper in which the technique is described actually maintains that with only 100 labelled examples they reached comparable results to using 10x that data in models that use older approaches)

Re: Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

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Post by rameerez »

domnomnom wrote: post #50
rameerez wrote: post #2

Hi guys! So as basis for my thesis on AI and NLP I've been working on a RRN-based text classifier that basically reads and analyzes privacy policies. It understands that "we don't share your data with third parties" is privacy friendly while "we may share your data with anyone" is a potential threat. I've then created this website with a bunch of analyzed services to showcase the most relevant info about each service…

How do we know it isn't just people doing the analysis if we can't actually use the AI ourselves?

I'm most probably publishing a paper later this year detailing the process. Also, 80 pages of my thesis would have loved this wouldn't have involved AI to make the whole thing simpler :)

Re: Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

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Post by rameerez »

jsingleton wrote: post #13
rameerez wrote: post #2

Hi guys! So as basis for my thesis on AI and NLP I've been working on a RRN-based text classifier that basically reads and analyzes privacy policies. It understands that "we don't share your data with third parties" is privacy friendly while "we may share your data with anyone" is a potential threat. I've then created this website with a bunch of analyzed services to showcase the most relevant info about each service…

Looks cool. It's a small point, but not pluralising words when the number is 1 shows attention to detail (e.g. 1 scandals for instagram).

Thanks for the heads up!

Re: Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

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Post by epoch_100 »

rameerez wrote: post #51
epoch_100 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a site trying to fight for privacy, don't you think it would be better to not use Google Analytics to track the people who visit your site?

Yes, definitely. I mention it in Guard's own privacy policy, I don't like using it either, but reasons are: (a) it's the simplest and as far as I know one of the few free analytics tools available, (b) not having a measure of the website activity will make me effectively blind and unable to make decisions, (c) I don't send any personally identifiable event (and, for this matter, I don't send any events apart from pag…

You could just not use user-level analytics; I run the infrastructure for PrivacySpy.org, and using CloudFlare's aggregate analytics has served us perfectly well.

Re: Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

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Post by rameerez »

ignoramous wrote: post #33
rameerez wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some of the process on gathering the data to create the labelling dataset is described here: https://useguard.com/experiment But most probably I'll be publishing a paper later this year detailing all the details and process :)

Where can we follow you to know abt the paper when you do eventually publish?

I'm most active on Twitter :) https://twitter.com/rameerez

Re: Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies

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Post by lucb1e »

nurettin wrote: post #47

offtopic: Is it worth using producthunt for games? Or do we concentrate our efforts on platforms like steam, appstore and play store?

Why are you posting that to this thread? I know you said off topic, but usually when someone says that, it's still related: e.g. if the parent comment mentioned something tangential, or I could imagine if the link was to producthunt and you wondered about games on that platform... are you hijacking this thread for a completely unrelated question that you want to ask the HN audience, or is there a connection I'm missing?
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