Understand privacy policies

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One of the problems on the internet is be able to understand the privacy policies which are often written in lawyer. The majority of people he can hardly understand what is written there. Furthermore, it cannot be ignored that they are often very long and boring, therefore normal or at least understandable that the majority of users decide to "accept the conditions of use" without even reading what is written. It's correct? In our opinion, no.

Legal information is necessary but the average user he cannot understand them and it hasn't don't even want to do it. Some sites, such as Cryptee they overcame this obstacle by including a translation lawyers – human really cute and useful. It's a bit long for obvious reasons but the 'for humans' part is easy understanding and truly suitable for everyone.

But what to do when it comes to large multinationals e.g Big Tech? In recent years, various automatic and non-automatic tools have come to our aid. Let's see them together!

Understand privacy policies

Terms of Service Didn’t Read

Open source

This site presents itself very well, their motto is in fact: “I have read and accept the Terms is the biggest lie on the web“. In fact, as we were saying, no one really reads them privacy policy and we accept everything assuming that there are no alternatives (It is not so). This site, abbreviated to tosdr, is also used by extensions of DuckDuckGo to evaluate the privacy of each site.

It's a project Open source And anyone can lend a hand, financially or reading and commenting with other users the policy of the sites. There are several sites and the list is constantly updated. The concepts present within the policies are summarized as much as possible. When possible, an overall rating is also assigned. Our advice is to don't stop at vote but to read the summary of the Terms so as to evaluate for yourself whether you are happy with what you read (and which perhaps you have already accepted).

PrivacySpy

Open source

Another very interesting project is called PrivacySpy. This is also a project Open source which promises to “track online privacy“. Also in this case there is a score and the points are summarized in a very basic way policy of the major websites. According to them Facebook it's one of the worst, who would have thought?

Polisis

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A project different compared to the previous ones mentioned. Polisis it doesn't give a real overall opinion but allows you to sift through the policies of the major websites. In fact, you will be able to see at a glance the points in favor of each individual policy, and thanks to the deep learning you will be able to know what the company collects about you, what it is sharing and much more. A less elementary method than the previous ones but much more complex and useful for understanding what will happen to our data.

Guard

In this case it is artificial intelligence who comes to our rescue. A TO THE analyzes the policies of the major websites to find, where the human eye alone cannot reach, atrocities and secrets. A truly very interesting experiment that allows us to discover many small things present within the policies. You can also actively participate in a test for improve AI!

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