PrivacyMeter provides a real-time privacy quantification for the modern Web. It is a browser extension that, on-the-fly, computes a relative privacy score for any website that a user is visiting. This score is computed based on each website's privacy practices and how these compare to the privacy practices of many other pre-analyzed websites. Currently, it supports four main widgets, analyzing the trackers present on the page, fingerprinting activity, amount of third-party content, and leaky web forms. In addition, the extension provides users with contextual information about all the discovered privacy issues.
PrivacyMeter is a non-commercial research tool developed by PragSec Lab at Stony Brook University, and proudly powered by EasyList (https://easylist.to), Adblock Plus (https://adblockplus.org), Web of Trust "MyWOT" (https://www.mywot.com), IP2Location LITE (http://lite.ip2location.com), Alexa Top Sites (https://www.alexa.com/topsites), and Highcharts (https://www.highcharts.com).
The development of PrivacyMeter is supported by the Data Transparency Lab (http://datatransparencylab.org/dtl-2016/grantees-2016/).
- Initial version presented at the Data Transparency Lab Conference 2017.
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