1. A method for automatically identifying a cookie as a privacy threat, comprising: receiving a request to install a cookie; receiving a privacy policy associated with the cookie; evaluating, using a processor, one or more tags of the privacy policy against a set of predefined criteria, wherein evaluating the one or more tags comprises classifying the one or more tags of the privacy policy into a plurality of types selected from the group consisting of required tags, mitigating tags, potentially failing tags, user interpreted tags, and automatically failing tags; and determining that the cookie is a privacy threat based on the evaluation of the privacy policy.