Competition

PrivaSearch is not alone in the realm of privacy-enhancing technologies (PET). PrivacyCheck, the inspiration for PrivaSearch, has established itself quite well in this sphere. It offers its product free of charge, and has a solid team backing its endeavour. As well, there are several other there are similar tools, services, and PETs that help users parse the details in privacy policies such as privacy seals (e.g. BBB Online, Datanyze), crowdsourced services (e.g. ToS;DR), data mining tools (e.g. The Usable Privacy Project, and similar to PrivacyCheck and PrivaSearch), tracking monitors (e.g. Ghostery, Adblock Plus ), and new formats that do not have a specific classification (e.g. The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project; Zaeem et al., 2018). Rest assured, these products lack the emphasis on student privacy protection that PrivaSearch offers, and that is so very important to educators and educational agencies.