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You don't read privacy policies. And of course, that's because they're not actually written for you, or any of the other billions of people who click to agree to their inscrutable legalese. Instead, like bad poetry and teenagers' diaries, those millions upon millions of words are produced for the benefit of their authors, not readers—the lawyers who wrote those get-out clauses to protect their Silicon Valley employers.
But one group of academics has proposed a way to make those virtually illegible privacy policies into the actual tool of consumer protection they pretend to be: an artificial intelligence that's fluent in fine print. Today, researchers at Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan announced the release of Polisis—short for "privacy policy analysis"—a new website and browser extension that uses their machine-learning-trained app to automatically read and make sense of any online service's privacy policy, so you don't have to.
Details at Wired
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Sunday February 11 2018, @05:00AM
I was thinking this was a useless application for AI. No one reads these policies because we know they are a waste of our time, and are difficult to impossible to enforce and police.
It's even more of a waste of time if the entity with the privacy policy accepts fake info. Just use a fake name and whatever other fake info they demand, then their privacy policy doesn't matter, does it?