Originally posted on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/cfgt4f/idea_make_a_website_for_listing_the_known_privacy/
I’ve noticed that a core challenge for privacy conscious individuals is figuring out which services are privacy friendly, which are okay, and which are thinly veiled spyware. I’m thinking of doing something to try and fix that for my next programming hobby project. A website where people can submit information on the privacy implications of different online services, including posting articles on past and present scandals, collectively interpret the privacy policy and translate from “Lawyer” to “Average Human”, and post information gathered from monitoring of applications and websites, among others. Like a Wikipedia for privacy concerns (maybe even base it off the Wiki content management platform).
Do any of you think this is would be a good idea? Any suggestions for functionality or design? Does something like this already exist?
It sort of does. For example on operating systems page there’s a description why win10 is bad. And there are similar pages for the most severe examples in other fields. You can kind of assume that almost anything not mentioned there that is reasonably large of a project to be noticed, has had some sort of privacy abuse. But it would interesting to maintain a track record anyway.
Also if you want specifically the very privacy violations and other sorts of misdeeds, there’s also the What’s bad about section of Stallman’s website.