Proof of Concept - Simplify Privacy Statements

Privacy is a complex policy area and is often used to shut down crucial user research or testing. Let's take the guess-work out of creating privacy and consent (P&C) notices for designers and researchers - maybe even for the entire government of Canada. Just as VAC has a logic to their benefits, so does a privacy and consent form. Let's create a tool that automatically generates P&C notices so that policy doesn't have to keep holding up the show.

Mission Statement: Help CDS research and design spend more time with users, and less time fighting the bureaucracy.

Goal: A working prototype that generates P&C statements.

Trello board: https://trello.com/b/vptWzBnE/generate-privacy-statements-portage

Installing and running locally (Mac)

• Install git, node and pandoc. The best way to do this is probably using Homebrew (which you need to install first)
  • homebrew: /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
  • others: brew install git node pandoc
• You might want to set up ssh keys to make it easier to interact with GitHub. See Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent. Alternatively, you could use GitHub Desktop or an IDE with integrated git support.
• Clone the repo locally and go into the repo directory
  • git clone git@github.com:cds-snc/simplify-privacy-statements-V2.git
  • cd simplify-privacy-statements-V2
• If you want to use Google Analytics or to send feedback or link emails, you have to set up proper environment variables. Copy the .env.example file into .env and set the variables appropriately.
• Next install the third party modules using npm install
• If you want to test locally comment out lines 74 to 79 in agreement-1.controller.js and move the res.send(html) out of the nodePandoc call.
• You can now run the app locally! run npm run dev and then open a web browser to localhost:3000.