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

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Tinder and Mozilla have the same score of 33%. I don't agree with that. Tinder willingly shares very, very personal data along with your contacts (assuming without said contact consent).

Keep in mind that it's analyzing their privacy policy, not their actions. Who a company specifically choses to share the data with and how often they do it is likely not considered.

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

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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…

Have you considered hosting your own Matomo server? You could just scrape logs or use a Javascript tracker. But the data will stay local to you.

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

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The need for things like this is partly why I quit my job 6 months ago to start my own company (in profile). We need to start building companies and products that provide valuable communities and services (like social networks) without the need for ads/privacy violations. My belief is that the issue is largely related to incentive misalignment (users != customers).

Congrats on the launch!

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

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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 missi…

They are on producthunt.

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

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post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 missi…

They are on producthunt.

Ah I missed that top banner, must have automatically scrolled past it. Fair enough; thanks for responding.

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

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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 the surprise people have a first but the next step is finding good apps. Alsi sort by grade and search by name is a must.

Again, thank you for your time and work.

Edit: telegram had hacking news this year, search for "Telegram voicemail account hijacking"

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

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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…

> 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.

Does it understand "we don't share your data with just any old third parties", or "we're not like our competitors who may share your data with anyone"?

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