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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…

>>”along with other interesting stuff like recent data breaches”

Do you have an integration with HaveIBeenPwned?

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

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I’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 Cookie on your computer in order to automatically log you into the site on each visit. and option B: Back to Top ^ NO THIRD-PARTY BENEFICIARIES There shall be no third-party beneficiaries to this Agreement. It would be great to have a skip/flag optio…

The fact that you consider companies ethical is neither here nor there for the privacy score of their policy though. You haven't made a very strong case as to why your opinion needs to impact the metrics (or really given any justification for your feelings at all).

As to your two options having nothing to do with privacy: The fact that there cannot be any third-party beneficiaries is in fact a baldly privacy-friendly statement, because a third party is yet another party that may influence a privacy policy in a net-negative way.

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…

> Happy to answer Qs about the tech behind [...]

What tech is involved to get something like this on the web?

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

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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 this is mostly a problem of the tools used. An anchor tag by definition is an inline element, so it shouldn't really be a giant box that's clickable, so you default back to an onClick. onClick in popular frameworks just means left click and nothing more, which makes sense, except for that use case of opening in a new tab with middle mouse button or right clicking etc. So you have to add a lot of logic to supp…

> So you have to add a lot of logic to support all that.

Or, to point out the thing that is obvious to anyone who grew up on the old web:

Removing a whole lot of logic also works.

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