Honest Privacy Policies
We Read the Fine Print So You Don't Have To
Details
- External ID
- 48419076
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Honest Privacy Policies
- Website domain
- honestprivacypolicies.org
- Launched
- June 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12568306010928962
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi HN, I’m AseemLast month, during my commencement for a Master's in Privacy Engineering at CMU, my friends and I were joking about the absurd volume of unreadable privacy policies we’d spent semesters dissecting. What started as a graduation joke stuck with me, and over the last few weeks, it transformed into this actual project.I’m personally very privacy-conscious—I self-host my NAS, run Immich for my photos, and try to self-host where I can. But completely decoupling from third-party services is nearly impossible. Even with a technical background in privacy and security, figuring out what a SaaS tool actually does with your data telemetry means wading through buried boilerplate that no one has time to read.I built HonestPrivacyPolicies.org to turn that text into structured, actionable insights.Would love your feedback. A few questions I've been asking ppl : 1. What would you love to see in a privacy policy (check our pp as well) 2. What questions do you want answers to when you give your data to an orgCheers!
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Compliance & governance
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- privacy policy summary service
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Honest Privacy Policies is a content site showcasing AI-generated humorous summaries and grades of corporate privacy policies. The platform consists of a static or lightweight web frontend backed by prompts sent to Claude/Codex.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Unclear if parsing policy text or validating against actual app behavior, Gap between privacy policies and actual app practices
Feature requests: Real instance testing and validation, Actual behavior checking against policies
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 33 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #29 of 34 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 157 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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