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Re:Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is a... by mholt on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @02:21AM (#9966662)
I like your idea at the end there. Any known examples of this? Or maybe a proof of concept?

Maintaining it would be a pain. I'd like to see each company maintain their own table of terms and policies.

Other than maintenance, I'm concerned about how conditional sharing would be expressed succinctly... of course it's just a watered down version but you'd have to do it carefully.

Re:Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is a... by kbenson on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @04:10AM (#9967001)
From your sibling comment, https://tosdr.org/ seems like it gets partly there. The items listed don't seem to be standardized for the initial view though. Then again, I just visited it for the first time in years (I had heard of it, but completely forgotten), so I don't claim to have a good idea of exactly what it offers.

The first step would be getting a formalized set of metrics, which is in itself a bit project. Once you have that, a framework to crowd source the specific answers from users (hopefully with references to a TOS/Privacy policy section) would be the easiest way to keep it up to date. Allowing comments and annotations for further info on a specific company's rating for an item that could be expanded would let people drill down on the details.