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  <h2> DTL Tools </h2>
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    <p>
      DTL supports different tools intended to shed light on 
      how personal data is used by websites and applications.
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      <h4>Some of the Tools promoted by DTL</h4>
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          <a href="http://floodwatch.o-c-r.org/" target="_blank">
          <div class="topic-title">Floodwatch</div>
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          <p>
            Floodwatch is a Chrome extension that can be downloaded from 
            <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/floodwatch/lnnmlfhgefcbnolklnepapefmmobedld">
              Chrome Store </a>. This extension tracks the ads you see as you 
            browse the Internet and helps you understand both the volume and the 
            types of ads you’re being served during the course of normal 
            browsing. The goal is increasing awareness of how advertisers 
            track your browsing behavior, build their version of your online 
            identity, and target their ads to you as an individual. 
            <a href="http://floodwatch.o-c-r.org/" target="_blank" style="border-bottom:0px;">
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          <a href="http://sheriff.dynu.com/" target="_blank">
            <div class="topic-title">$heriff</div>
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          <p>
            $heriff is an experimental service that allows users to search for traces of
            price discrimination in the Internet. It let users knows whether 
            e-retailers vary their prices dynamically based on the information 
            that they can collect online for the potential customer (such as her 
            location, browser/OS, incoming link, navigation history, etc.). 
            $heriff can be installed from <a
              href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sheriff_v2/?">
              Firefox Add-on Store </a> and <a
              href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/heriffv2/emobhicogmenmngifjhjbfliohhjijjl">
              Chrome Store </a>
            <a href="http://sheriff.dynu.com/" target="_blank" style="border-bottom:0px;">
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          <a href="http://www.fdvt.org" target="_blank">
          <div class="topic-title">Facebook Data Valuation Tool (FDVT)</div>
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          <p>
            Facebook Data Valuation Tool is a browser plugin that allows users
            to understand how much money Facebook makes thanks to their online
            activity. The plugin monitors the ads you are been displayed and
            the ads in which you click in, and based on Facebook information
            it estimates the amount of money Facebook makes thanks to them.
            If you are using Chrome, you can already a version from the 
            <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/facebook-data-valuation-t/blednbbpnnambjaefhlocghajeohlhmh"> Chrome Store </a>. 
            This tool has been developed by Carlos III University, which 
            was awarded with one of the 2015 DTL Grants.
            <a href="http://www.fdvt.org/" target="_blank" style="border-bottom:0px;">
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          <a href="https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/" target="_blank">
          <div class="topic-title">Princeton Web Census</div>
          </a>
          <p>
            This tool provides information about the measurements performed on 
            1 million web sites. The measurements were focused on identifying
            the tracking techniques used by those websites, both stateful 
            (cookie-based) and stateless (fingerprinting-based). The tool can 
            be used to check which tracking techniques are used by a given 
            website or to check how widely used a given tracking technology is.
            This tool has been developed by Princeton University, which 
            was awarded with one of the 2015 DTL Grants.
            <a href="https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/" target="_blank" style="border-bottom:0px;">
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          <a href="https://recon.meddle.mobi/" target="_blank">
          <div class="topic-title">ReCon</div>
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          <p>
            This tool shows users what information is being sent by mobile
            applications to third parties, including understanding how companies
            are tracking their movements in their day-to-day life.
            ReCon detects device/user identifiers used in tracking, geolocation
            leaks, unsafe password transmissions, and personal information such
            as name, address, gender, and relationship status. This information
            is available to users via a private Web page, and ReCon allows them
            to provide feedback on whether important leaks have been found, and
            whether the leak should be blocked or the information sent modified.
            <a href="https://recon.meddle.mobi/" target="_blank" style="border-bottom:0px;">
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          <a href="tools/recon/" target="_blank">
          <div class="topic-title">ReCon Visualization</div>
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          <p>
            This tool, developed by the Data Transparency Lab, shows 
            the information gathered by <a href="http://recon.meddle.mobi/"> ReCon Project </a> 
            in a way that let users understand what is going on with the applications
            they use in their smartphones. For instance, it lets users identify the Applications that leak the most Personal Information and the
            domains that aggregate more Personal Information from users. You can
            use this tool directly at the <a href="tools/recon"> DTl website</a>
            <a href="tools/recon/" target="_blank" style="border-bottom:0px;">
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