Pixel Patrol: Automated GDPR Watchdog Catches Undeclared Trackers and Drafts Policy Updates

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A developer built Pixel Patrol, a GDPR compliance tool, for the All Things Agentic hackathon to automatically detect undeclared third-party trackers on websites. The tool uses Playwright in a Cloud Run Job to crawl sites hourly, comparing detected cookies and third-party hosts against an approved baseline. When new trackers are found, it uses two Google ADK agents on Vertex AI powered by Gemini Flash to classify the change, draft a Czech-language cookie policy redline, and generate a Records of Processing Activities entry. Findings are delivered directly as a GitHub issue with ready-to-use text, bypassing the need for a separate dashboard. During testing on a Czech news site, the system reviewed 643 differences across 69 crawls and surfaced only 12 actionable reports, with no domain flagged twice.

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