Inspiration
Today, no one bothers reading Privacy Policies or Terms and Conditions, and companies can easily gather as much information as they can from us. So I decided to make Privacypedia in order to raise awareness of how these large corporations handle our data.
What it does
Privacypedia summarizes a company's Privacy Policy and gives it a rating between 0 and 10 based. This is done through the PrivacySpy API. The app also provides recourses for the user such as the company's privacy policy and its website.
How I built it
I built the app with Dart and used the Flutter framework. I also used many libraries such as Google fonts, URL launcher, HTTP, and a lot more.
Challenges I ran into
Since this was my first ever Flutter app, I ran into many errors and spent countless hours debugging. One specific problem I encountered was trying to read and parse a JSON file. This was especially hard since I mostly have experience with non strictly typed languages such as Javascript.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Walking into this hackathon I had no experience with Flutter, so I'm pretty proud of the end result.
What I learned
I learned how to:
- Use Rest APIs in Dart
- How Flutter widgets work
- How to parse JSON in Dart
- Future and async functions
- A lot more!
What's next for Privacypedia
In the future, I'd like to add a search bar to make it easier to navigate between companies.
Built With
- dart
- flutter
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