Inspiration

We find the data privacy problem to be very important in the world, so we decided to create a tool to raise awareness and clear misconceptions about data privacy.

What it does

It uses statistical data from 500 popular websites to calculate the average score and find websites with similar tracking techniques.

How we built it

We used privacyscanner to retrieve the data about those websites, and than that data trough UMAP dimension-reducing algorithm to build the map of websites.

Challenges we ran into

Finding the proper way to calculate the average score and creating pretty frontend for visualizing.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We turned huge amounts of unclear data to simple and clear diagrams that are easy to understand. That is the thing we loved most about this project.

What we learned

It was the first time we employed machine learning algorithms on hackaton and it turned out rather good!

What's next for Privacy benchmark

Probably providing more detailed output and adding more text explaining the results in a simple way.

Github:

https://github.com/hack-chain/hackaburg-2019

Forked repo for data extraction

https://github.com/m-malikov/privacyscanner

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