This Chrome Extension Reads Privacy Policies So You Don’t Have To
This Chrome Extension Reads Privacy Policies So You Don’t Have To
Publish Date: 2026-06-02 01:00:00
Source Domain: www.adexchanger.com
If there were an Olympics event for how fast someone can scroll to the bottom of a privacy policy and hit “accept,” you’d find me on the podium with a medal.
But buried in those endless paragraphs are real trade-offs related to data sharing, liability and, increasingly, whether your content and data can be used to train AI.
Unfortunately, though, most people are on accept-all autopilot.
“People don’t read them, don’t click on them, don’t even open them,” said Giulio Pavesi, founder of Termzy AI, a Chrome extension that uses DeepSeek’s large language model to analyze and summarize online contracts and surface the five most important clauses. Users can also ask the Termzy chatbot what a policy says about their data and their rights in plain English.
Pavesi, who just graduated, came up with the idea for Termzy with three classmates while he was a student at the University of Amsterdam, in a course examining how AI affects culture, politics and democratic values. One of his assignments was to build something that uses AI responsibly for the social good.
What started out as a class project is now an independent startup with a business plan. Termzy is free today, but Pavesi eventually wants to launch enterprise versions aimed at employers, legal teams and procurement folks.
“We all sign contracts every day,” he said. “It’s impossible to avoid them completely – but we can at least understand them better.”
I caught up with Pavesi to talk about why we ignore the fine print and whether tools like this can really change behavior.
AdExchanger: Would you say most privacy policies are misleading, or is it just that they’re not written for regular people?
GIULIO PAVESI: You really do need some legal background to understand most terms and conditions, but I think the deeper issue is a lack of awareness.
If you open Meta’s privacy policy, for example, they actually have short animations, roughly one or two…
