The tool goes by the description “Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech”.
Blacklight, a real-time privacy inspector tool, emulates how a user may be surveilled while browsing the web.
When a user types a URL into Blacklight, the tool scans the website for known privacy violations and provides a privacy analysis of the site.
It visits each website with a headless browser, running custom software built by The Markup, a non-profit newsroom that uses datasets to understand how technology companies impact the society. The tool goes by the description “Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech”.
Blacklight seeks to identify various types of surveillance including third-party cookies, ad trackers, key logging, session recording and Facebook tracking.
The tool has been developed using a specific Javascript environment which provides high-level control over Chromium,…
