Case Study: Avast builds a universal privacy score with Diffbot

Avast ships Privacy Policy analysis in 4 weeks with Diffbot

Avast, a leading global consumer cybersecurity company, faced the challenge of developing a universal privacy score for websites but lacked the data on privacy policies needed for its models. Manually gathering and analyzing the web's vast number of policies would have been a massive, expensive undertaking requiring significant expertise in web crawling and machine learning. To solve this, they turned to vendor Diffbot and its automated web extraction services.

Diffbot implemented a solution using its automatic page classification and text extraction APIs, fine-tuned specifically for privacy policies, and enriched the data with firmographic details from its Knowledge Graph. This allowed Avast to ship a production-quality Privacy Policy analysis API in just four weeks. The solution achieved a 93.4% precision and 100% recall, enabling Avast to quickly integrate critical privacy analysis into its consumer products.

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