Privofy is an AI-powered web application that analyzes privacy policies and explains data usage, risks, red flags, green flags, and safety scores in simple language.
Privacy Decoded Risks Revealed
Shivansh Mathur
When people sign up for a new online service (an app or a website), most users don’t bother reading the terms & conditions or privacy policies. Even when they do, these documents are often written in complex legal language that is difficult to understand.
This leads to:
- Companies exploiting users’ data through vague or misleading clauses.
- Increased risks of data leaks, spam calls, and unauthorized data sharing.
- Users unknowingly approving policies that negatively impact their privacy.
📊 According to surveys:
- 60% of Indian adults and 90% of adults worldwide fear unauthorized data access.
- Only 11% of users actually understand what privacy policies mean.
Privofy is a web-based privacy policy analysis platform that empowers users to understand what they are agreeing to before accepting any terms.
Users can:
- Upload a privacy policy file.
- Search for a company’s privacy policy from a database.
- Fetch a privacy policy directly using a public URL.
An AI model then:
- Analyzes the policy in depth.
- Explains it in simple, non-legal language.
- Highlights key risks and protections.
- Assigns a safety score out of 100.
- Identifies Red Flags (potential concerns) and Green Flags (positive practices).
- Supports multilingual translation and text-to-speech (TTS) for accessibility.
Privofy is aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goal 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions) by promoting transparency, accountability, and informed digital consent.
- Users authenticate and access a unified dashboard.
- They can choose one of three ways to load a privacy policy:
- Upload a document.
- Search for a company’s policy from the database.
- Fetch policy content using a public URL.
- Once the policy content is loaded, users press Analyze Policy button.
- The AI generates structured insights, including:
- Impact on user data privacy and security.
- Practical implications for users.
- A safety score based on a defined scoring rubric.
- Clear Red Flags and Green Flags.
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- A concise policy summary.
- Each insight block can be:
- Translated independently into the user’s preferred language.
- Listened to via text-to-speech.
- Toggled between original English and translated versions.
- Users can retranslate content at any time, with translations updated dynamically.
- 📑 Upload, search, or fetch any company’s privacy policy.
- 🔍 Two-step analysis process (load content → analyze) for better control.
- 🧠 AI-powered explanations in plain, easy-to-understand layman language.
- 🔒 Safety score (0–100) based on transparency, data handling, and legal risks.
- 🚩 Red Flags highlighting potential privacy concerns.
- ✅ Green Flags highlighting positive privacy practices.
- 🌍 Block-wise multilingual translation with language toggle support.
- 🔊 Text-to-speech (TTS) for accessibility and ease of use.
- Makes privacy policies accessible to everyone, regardless of technical or legal background.
- Helps users make informed decisions before accepting digital agreements.
- Encourages companies to adopt clearer, more ethical privacy practices.
- Designed as a scalable web platform, capable of serving users globally with minimal infrastructure overhead.
Privofy is a comprehensive privacy awareness tool that automates the complex and often intimidating process of understanding privacy policies.
Unlike traditional approaches that require legal expertise, Privofy:
- Breaks down policies into actionable insights.
- Visually highlights risks and protections.
- Supports multiple languages and accessibility features.
This project:
- Addresses a critical real-world issue of data privacy and user exploitation.
- Stands out through its unique combination of AI analysis, scoring, flags, translation, and TTS.
- Strongly aligns with SDG 16, an area where impactful digital solutions are still limited.