Safetypedia: Crowdsourcing Privacy Inspections
summary
Internet Safety Labs runs the SafetyPedia pilot (since Oct 2024) to crowdsource mobile app privacy inspections while also developing automation, aiming for labels on >5M apps by 2029 and publishing results at appmicroscope.org. The pilot trains inspectors to capture metadata, observed behaviors and network logs via off-the-shelf proxies. Twenty-five people train, seven certify and complete 161 inspections (112 rechecks, 49 new), adding 318 subdomains, 202 companies and 2 SDKs. Manual company-linking and rescoring slow label generation (first 70 apps took 11 weeks; typical turnaround now ≈ two weeks).
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Safetypedia project intro
- 2:34Safety Pedia pilot overview
- 6:49Crowdsourcing challenges & wins
- 12:50Future of human testing
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