[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":627},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-21042468":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":33,"aspects":34,"strip":46,"post_text":47,"what":48,"said":92,"maker_in_thread":241,"shape":252,"grid":255,"attempts":591,"same_week":592,"maker_shows":18,"maker_hidden":619,"reader_version":620,"card":621},"21042468","Guard","A neural net that analyzes privacy policies","title","Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies","https:\u002F\u002Fuseguard.com","useguard.com","rameerez",1569172205,2019,502,120,31,2195,2,"legend","security_privacy","privacy policy analysis","web_app",[24,25,26,27],"privacy policy","privacy score","nlp","privacy policy analyzer","mixed",0.039,{"positive":31,"neutral":16,"mixed":32,"critical":31},16,5,68,{"execution":35,"design":37,"idea":39,"privacy":42,"performance":44,"docs":45},{"positive":36,"critical":32},1,{"positive":36,"critical":38},3,{"positive":40,"critical":41},8,4,{"positive":43,"critical":18},0,{"positive":43,"critical":18},{"positive":43,"critical":43},[32,38,38,38,36,38,38,36,36,38,32,38,36,36,36,43,43,43,43,36,41,36,36,32,38,32,32,41,36,32,32,18,38,36,38,36,32,32,41,38],null,{"problem":49,"audience":59,"pricing":47,"motivation":71,"time_to_build":47,"stack":78,"openness":90,"stage":91,"team_size":90},{"value":50,"source":51,"evidence":52},"Privacy policies are long and hard to read, so users don't know how services handle their data.","maker",[53,56],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},"21042512","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…",{"id":57,"by":11,"text":58},"21043071","Thank you! :) I've read some recent research and looks like this is actually measured: only 0.001% of all internet users start reading them (and even a smaller amount of people…",{"value":60,"source":61,"evidence":62},"Everyday internet users checking how services handle their data","inferred",[63,67],{"id":64,"by":65,"text":66},"21043955","brenden2","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…",{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"21043156","R888D0","You're doing incredibly noble work. Ive bookmarked the site and will make great use of it. Thank you for working hard to protect data privacy, I hope you never stop.",{"value":72,"source":51,"evidence":73},"Thesis work on NLP and concern about digital privacy after Facebook contacts discovery.",[74,75],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},{"id":76,"by":11,"text":77},"21042750","Thanks! Last semester I did a bootcamp on Artificial Intelligence and I had to do a final project. Last year I started becoming concerned about digital privacy when I discovered…",[79],{"value":80,"source":51,"evidence":81},"RNN-based text classifier (LSTM, ULMFiT-style transfer learning)",[82,83,87],{"id":54,"by":11,"text":55},{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"21044191","goldemerald","Does your work integrate pretrained LMs like BERT or GPT2?",{"id":88,"by":11,"text":89},"21043773","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…","unknown","launched",{"praise":93,"objections":118,"requests":166,"questions":196,"alternatives":215},[94,107],{"value":95,"source":96,"evidence":97},"Useful, important work protecting data privacy","commenter",[98,99,103],{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"21043023","A4ET8a8uTh0","I will join the chorus of great work. I love it. It may even make some people more privacy conscious ( very few people read those -- usually the ones who wrote it ).",{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"21042674","helloiloveyou","Very creative project! Congratulations!!",{"value":108,"source":96,"evidence":109},"Interesting use of NLP on privacy policies",[110,114],{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"21042624","Pete-Codes","Very nice! The fact you mentioned Tinder's T+C on Twitter got my attention.",{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"21048789","tboyd47","Hi there. This is really neat. It reminds me of a talk I listened to recently on digital privacy, where the guy was using the price of \"privacy products\" as a way to measure how…",[119,133,143,158],{"value":120,"source":96,"evidence":121},"Scoring bugs, such as Telegram scoring above 100%",[122,126,130],{"id":123,"by":124,"text":125},"21042842","the_watcher","Telegram has a 105% score? Is that expected or a bug?",{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"21043226","Angostura","I'm slightly puzzled that Telegram is scoring more than 100%. What am I missing?",{"id":131,"by":11,"text":132},"21043848","A bug in the scoring algorithm that I need to fix",{"value":134,"source":96,"evidence":135},"Site errors and slow load under traffic, including SSL error",[136,140],{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"21042728","paktek123","I get ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR",{"id":141,"by":11,"text":142},"21042843","This just hit the frontpage so the server might be a bit overloaded, I'm sorry. Trying to resize resources right now. Thanks for the heads up, in the long term (ideally) noise…",{"value":144,"source":96,"evidence":145},"Training game gives context-free snippets and includes non-privacy sentences",[146,150,154],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"21045676","foxes","The \"game\" (training) that asks you to analyse \"privacy threats\" is a bit strange. It feels like it takes two random excerpts from a privacy policy and asks you to compare them,…",{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"21044274","1f60c","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…",{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"21043493","the_pwner224","I went to the homepage and ctrl-clicked a company card (Mozilla) to open the details in a new tab. Instead, the site jacked my ctrl-click and instead tried to navigate to the…",{"value":159,"source":96,"evidence":160},"Detailed sentences and full policy hidden behind email prompt",[161,165],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"21047241","BrS96bVxXBLzf5B","This is a good tool, but the execution of the website is disappointing. 1. Only showing excerpts of the highest threat levels. Trying to view the less severe threats asks us to…",{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},[167,178,185,189],{"value":168,"source":96,"evidence":169},"Browser extension showing scores",[170,174],{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"21044502","29athrowaway","A great idea. Some ideas for features: - Keep a timeline of privacy policy changes, being able to compare scores between 2 versions. - Subscribe to notifications for changes in…",{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"21042865","verbify","Great work! Would also work as a browser plugin.",{"value":179,"source":96,"evidence":180},"Sort by grade and search by name; hide bad scores on first page",[181],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"21044139","andrerm","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…",{"value":186,"source":96,"evidence":187},"Track policy changes over time and notify on score changes",[188],{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},{"value":190,"source":96,"evidence":191},"Non-JavaScript fallback",[192],{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"21047137","dastx","Great website. Quick note - your site doesn't functions without javascript. Having enabled it and trawled through it I see no reason to require js to be enabled. Adding a non-js…",[197,204,211],{"value":198,"source":96,"evidence":199},"Whether the thesis or paper has been published",[200],{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"21045860","jbduler","I love the work, and it is directly applicable to the work I am doing now. Have you published your thesis?",{"value":205,"source":96,"evidence":206},"How the project compares to Firefox Monitor",[207],{"id":208,"by":209,"text":210},"21046821","godelmachine","How are you better than Firefox Monitor?",{"value":212,"source":96,"evidence":213},"Whether one variable dominates the score",[214],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},[216,223,234],{"value":217,"source":96,"evidence":218},"PrivacySpy",[219],{"id":220,"by":221,"text":222},"21043129","epoch_100","Hi. A related project that takes a more human-powered approach is PrivacySpy (https:\u002F\u002Fprivacyspy.org). Would be neat to see how these tools intersect. 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Thanks all on HN for the feedback.",{"comments":242,"answered":243,"key":244},20,10,[245,246,249],{"id":54,"text":55},{"id":247,"text":248},"21043810","Thanks for the heads up!",{"id":250,"text":251},"21043710","The scoring definitely needs some work – I think some factors should have more weight. 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