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== The Idea ==
== The Idea ==


Private Citizens (formerly known as Web Citizenship) is an online privacy watchdog and pressure group that will:
Datawatch.org (formerly known as Private Citizens) is an online privacy watchdog and pressure group that will:


- Collect privacy policies, compare privacy policies to identify similar language, and detect updates to policies.
- Collect privacy policies changes and updates on more than 150 websites
 
- Alert users who downloaded the browser plug-in on the changes made in the privacy policy of the website they are navigating on


- Make it easy for attorneys, scholars, and law students to translate policies into plain English and explain changes in policies.
- Make it easy for attorneys, scholars, and law students to translate policies into plain English and explain changes in policies.


- Provide best practices for privacy policies.
- Consequently, identify bad practices and help users to take action in order to influence companies and to alert the FTC and any other relevant institution
 
- Identify bad practices, such as when you need to click through several pages to get to a privacy policy or when, like with FB and G+, you cannot click on the privacy link because the new feed reloads.


- Maintain privacy profiles to incentivize businesses to comply with best practices and explain their privacy changes.
- Incentivize businesses to comply with best practices and explain their privacy changes.


We will use changedetection.com to monitor privacy policies for changes and work with Herdict to allow people to identify when privacy policies are not easily accessible.
We have been using changedetection.com to monitor privacy policies and are currently looking for more efficient options.

Latest revision as of 18:43, 10 January 2012

Web Citizenship

The Idea

Datawatch.org (formerly known as Private Citizens) is an online privacy watchdog and pressure group that will:

- Collect privacy policies changes and updates on more than 150 websites

- Alert users who downloaded the browser plug-in on the changes made in the privacy policy of the website they are navigating on

- Make it easy for attorneys, scholars, and law students to translate policies into plain English and explain changes in policies.

- Consequently, identify bad practices and help users to take action in order to influence companies and to alert the FTC and any other relevant institution

- Incentivize businesses to comply with best practices and explain their privacy changes.

We have been using changedetection.com to monitor privacy policies and are currently looking for more efficient options.

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