PHP-PrivacyPolicy
Web and SaaS
privacy policy generator
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Execution: 0 for, 4 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea that seems overdue
From 2 comments
This is one of those things where you wonder why no one's thought of it before, or why this isn't just standard practice. Maybe time to blow the dust off my PHP binary... Great…
brango on HNNice work. This is what I hoped would eventually come out of P3P (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P) alas it wasn't to be.
cube00 on HN
Nice work
From 1 comment
Nice work. This is what I hoped would eventually come out of P3P (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P) alas it wasn't to be.
cube00 on HN
Objections
Legal risk of relying on a generated policy without a lawyer
From 2 comments
Very interesting! OP if you are the developer of this, I have a few questions: 1) Did you consult with any legal entities when creating this? Is there any risk of creating legal…
beager on HNWell there is a nice disclaimer: Disclaimer This project does not constitute legal advice and is not to be relied upon or acted on as such. Any material presented here is for…
infie on HN
Translations may carry mistranslation and legal-meaning risks
From 3 comments
It doesn't seem smart to use machine translation for anything legal related. I wonder if this kind of tool can get one in trouble. For example, a mistranslation causes the…
maxsavin on HNIt's not machine learning, but the text in other languages also isn't written by a lawyer according to the authors responses in this thread, so the risk of mistranslation and…
jacalata on HNThe risk is substantial. Drafting standards are not equivalent across languages, and the translators are not legal translators. Legal vocabulary contains words that are terms of…
ABCLAW on HN
Requires running PHP, a high barrier to entry
From 1 comment
Legal questions aside, this should have been an online form that creates a zip file containing the generated privacy policies in various markup languages and a configuration…
consto on HN
Translation via a switch statement rather than gettext
From 1 comment
So the translation is done with a gigantic switch statement. Um... Please consider using gettext instead.
jwilk on HN
Requests
Provide an online form that outputs a zip of policies
From 1 comment
Legal questions aside, this should have been an online form that creates a zip file containing the generated privacy policies in various markup languages and a configuration…
consto on HN
Machine-readable privacy-policy.json output
From 1 comment
Yes, I'm the author of this. Thanks for these interesting questions! (Happy to answer other questions as well.) 1) Yes, I consulted with a lawyer for the version in one language…
marco1 on HN
Client-side version or embeddable output
From 1 comment
I would personally prefer to do this client side and then just embed the generated policy. Especially since I use several different languages server-side, often not PHP. Of…
michaelmior on HN
Questions
Was legal advice consulted when creating it
From 1 comment
Very interesting! OP if you are the developer of this, I have a few questions: 1) Did you consult with any legal entities when creating this? Is there any risk of creating legal…
beager on HN
Could it apply to terms of service
From 1 comment
Very interesting! OP if you are the developer of this, I have a few questions: 1) Did you consult with any legal entities when creating this? Is there any risk of creating legal…
beager on HN
Alternatives named
iubenda
From 2 comments
Have you ever checked out iubenda (http://www.iubenda.com)? That's pretty much what it does, with 600 modular clauses in 8 languages.
Facens on HNYe there are all sorts of modules. There is also a free version, while the paid one is $27/yr.
Facens on HN
P3P
From 1 comment
Nice work. This is what I hoped would eventually come out of P3P (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P) alas it wasn't to be.
cube00 on HN