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Are there any tools out there to compare Privacy Policies against each other?

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Are there any tools out there to compare Privacy Policies against each other? - SLRPNK

Hiya, just quickly wondering if anyone know about a good tool for comparing Privacy policies against each other? Im currently downloading each PP, then using self-hosted StirlingPDF to compare 1 on 1. However, I am looking for a more efficient tool, to compare multiple at the time, if there are any. Any tool that can handle multiple PDFs or HTML files and look at the differences between them kinda tool. Appreciate any suggestions! 🕵️

XioR112 Apr 22, 2024

Frontpage -- Terms of Service; Didn't Read

“Terms of Service; Didn't Read” (short: ToS;DR) is a project started in June 2012 to help fix the “biggest lie on the web”: almost no one really reads the terms of service we agree to all the time.

Sips'Apr 22, 2024

While this is a great service, it’s not a tool that allows me to enter my own downloaded privacy policies and compare against others, as far as I’ve understood it? This seems like a service that you can upload a PP too and wait for it to be processed.

Tangent5280 Apr 23, 2024

I feel like that’s better, as long as it is a human doing the processing, rather than a program algorithmically output a closest case answer.

Sips'Apr 23, 2024

I’m only going through 10 of them, so personally it would be quicker to do it manually.

will_a113 Apr 22, 2024

Are you looking for a tool that can diff legal documents line by line or clause by clause? If the latter I’d bet an LLM with a large context size could do a pretty good job, especially if you used a script (or another pass through the LLM) to break them down into like sections so that could just compare e.g. all Controlling Law sections with each other and all IP Indemnification sections with each other.

Now that I think about it, tuning the prompt (and keeping the temperature very low, like 0) you could probably get it to return everything from proper diffs to summaries of conceptual differences. And it could definitely do multiples at once if you were to break them into like pieces ahead of time.

Sips'Apr 22, 2024

Preferably line by line. Kind of like what Github does whenever you apply a commit, it will make a red line for what is removed and a green line for what is added code. I could look into LLMs though, but was hoping to find a quick n dirty tool to do the job.

srwax Apr 22, 2024

Like a diff checker?

www.diffchecker.com

Diffchecker - Compare text online to find the difference between two text files

Diffchecker will compare text to find the difference between two text files. Just paste your files and click Find Difference!

Sips'Apr 22, 2024

This is pretty close to what im looking for actually, thanks for sharing! :)

srwax Apr 23, 2024

Glad to help!

ReversalHatchery Apr 22, 2024

After reaching this, I’m thinking whenever converting the PDFs to markdown and diffing them with a text difftool could work.

If you go this route, you may want to test with different diff algorithms. Git has multiple too, but I don’t remember right now which I found to be the best

Sips'Apr 22, 2024

Thanks for the tip!

ReversalHatchery Apr 24, 2024

Not that I’m at my computer, I was able to find the diff alg I was thinking about: it’s histogram.

Here’s an issue from gitea about when they changed the default git diff alg to this one: github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/23255
And here’s an article I have found earlier about some of the available git diff algorithms, and when they are too be used: …wordpress.com/…/when-to-use-each-of-the-git-diff…

Default to `histogram` diff algorithm · Issue #23255 · go-gitea/gitea

Feature Description Compelling research exists to suggest that the histogram diff algorithm is much superior to myers. This makes diffs smaller and easier to read in various edge cases. If histogra...

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Sips'Apr 24, 2024

thanks very much for sharing ☘️

shortwavesurfer Apr 22, 2024

I think there’s a privacy TLDR thing.

Zerush Apr 23, 2024

There is a general rule, the longer and more claused a TOS/PP is, the more they intend to hide. TOS and PP are legal documents and companies are required by law to specify their policy, if they track and profile the user they must specify it in these documents, for this reason they try to use long texts with a lot of legal jargon as much as possible, so that the user gets bored of reading it completely and does not understand even half of it. www.zzzuckerberg.com

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Sips'Apr 23, 2024

Hahaha haha I cannot believe someone made www.zzzuckerberg.com, that’s just freaking hilarious! Love that the brightness also decrease the further you scroll 😂

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