About
Australian Privacy Score
Independent · Consumer-focused · Open source
Our Mission
Australian Privacy Score exists to make privacy transparency legible. We analyse publicly available privacy policies across Australian organisations and publish scores so consumers can make informed choices about the services they use — without reading pages of legal text.
Privacy policies are written for compliance, not comprehension. We translate them into a letter grade and plain-language findings.
Independence Statement
Scores are determined entirely by the open-source engine — not by commercial relationships. We do not accept fees from scored organisations to influence scores. Organisations can pay for a detailed assessment report (which identifies improvement opportunities), but this does not affect their public score.
The platform's own privacy policy is included in the leaderboard and held to the same standard as every other entry.
How Scoring Works
Our engine fetches each organisation's privacy policy URL, extracts claims using a large language model, and scores them across 10 dimensions aligned to the Australian Privacy Principles. Each score is a single language-model pass over the policy text — there is no human ground-truth audit, so scores are indicative rather than definitive.
Scores reflect only what is publicly stated in the policy — not actual data practices, which cannot be independently verified.
Read the full methodology →Open Source
The scoring engine is open source. You can inspect the extraction prompts, weighting logic, and grade thresholds — and contribute improvements.
View the engine on GitHub →Regulatory Context
The Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024introduced significant changes to Australian privacy law, including new obligations for automated decision-making disclosure and children's data. Our scoring engine is updated to reflect these requirements as they take effect.
Contact
For questions, corrections, or to request a detailed assessment: