{"id":1909,"date":"2020-11-29T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T19:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2020-12-02T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:38:15","slug":"a3-privasearch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/11\/29\/a3-privasearch\/","title":{"rendered":"A3: PrivaSearch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PrivaSearch is based on an idea that I got from listening to a Canadian podcast called CyberSecurED. I came across the idea at the end of episode 2: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/voiced.ca\/podcast_episode_post\/ep-02-are-schools-ready-for-data-breaches\/\" target=\"_blank\">Are Schools Ready for Data Breaches?<\/a> In this episode their guest, Stephen Abouldahab suggests that educators need a product to help them vet the privacy policies of EdTech products (websites, apps, services or products) that they choose to use in their classroom. Abouldahad came up with the idea of an AI that is able to read the long privacy policies, and put it into plain language for teachers to understand whether or not to use an EdTech product. Soon after this episode I contacted Abouldahad (by the way I had been in contact with Abouldahad before about Cyber Week school activities that he helps run through the Information and Communications Technology Council in Canada) and thought that this would be a great idea for my venture pitch: an AI bot that could decode privacy policies for educators on the spot. Abouldahad was very helpful, and sent me resources in the form of websites and papers to look at. Through this generous offering I came across University of Texas Center for Identity&#8217;s (UT CID) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/identity.utexas.edu\/privacy-check\" target=\"_blank\"><em>PrivacyCheck<\/em><\/a>, and came into contact with one of its creators, Razieh Nokhbeh Zaeem. Zaeem also sent me resources to help me with my venture. PrivacyCheck, it turns out, is exactly what I was looking for; however, as useful as this product is for reading and translating privacy policies, it is perhaps too global in the privacy questions that it asks. Instead, educators could use their own privacy-enhancing technology tool that covers important questions that an educator may have when vetting an EdTech product for classroom use. Therefore, what follows is my pitch of my venture, PrivaSearch, to the team at UT CID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/files\/2020\/11\/privaSearch-banner-1024x311.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1912\" width=\"589\" height=\"177\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PrivaSearch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XSHz3wSrXnA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elevator Pitch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PrivaSearch <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/sd62learns.org\/privasearch-venture-pitch\/authors-approach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Venture Pitch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PrivaSearch is based on an idea that I got from listening to a Canadian podcast called CyberSecurED. I came across the idea at the end&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2020\/11\/29\/a3-privasearch\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A3: PrivaSearch<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":69927,"featured_media":1911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a3-venture-pitch","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}