Privacy Totem

Privacy and security are two incredibly important issues on the internet. Our submission uses crowd sourced data to provide users of our chrome extension with a page safety rating and comment section.

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Inspiration

Our inspiration for PrivacyTotem came from YouTube's rating system and comment section. As strange as this sounds, these YouTube social features provide a lot of information about the content in a specific video. When YouTube removed the dislike button, my partner and I both felt the impact. Being avid YouTube watchers, we both felt the hit of sitting through a video that was not worth watching, and is what led us to understand the value of community sentiment. In addition to judging the quality of a video on YouTube, we believed that community sentiment could be used to help keep people safe and private on the internet.

What it does

Our project is an easy to use Chrome extension that allows users to rate the privacy and security of a website. In addition to this rating, the ratings and comments of other users are provided. This allows the user to make a fast and informed decision on the security and privacy of the website.

How we built it

We built this Chrome extension using HTML and Vanilla JavaScript on the front end, with Deno and SQL on the backend. We communicated between the two primarily through http requests and JSON.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into some issues when it came to using Deno and SQL together. I nor my partner have ever used Deno and SQL together, so it was challenge trying to learn how to get it working properly and consistently.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were proud of the progress we made on this project. Before we started, we thought it would be a reasonable project to get done in 24 hours, but as we quickly discovered, it was a little bit more than we could chew. Because of this, we were worried that the project would not be in a demonstrateble place, but we were able to put together a concept of what the project would look like fully functional.

What we learned

My partner and I learned a lot throughout the creation of this project. We both picked up roles that we are not normally used to. I specifically learned a lot about front end development, while my partner learned a lot about backend development and the Deno runtime environment. We also learned how to create Chrome extensions from scratch, as this is something neither of us have ever done before.

What's next for Privacy Totem

Even though this Hackathon is over, my partner and I are going to continue to work on our project until it is fully functional. After we get it to a fully functional state, we had some ideas on how we could expand the project. We would like to host our backend server on Google cloud, and would like to potentially get the Chrome extension published on the official Chrome Extension store.

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