Privacy at Scale: Introducing the PrivaSeer Corpus of Web Privacy Policies (2021.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing tools to interpret privacy policies have been used to understand them but there is a lack of large privacy policy corpora to simplify the process. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a corpus of 1,005,380 English language privacy policies collected from the web to create semi-supervised and unsupervised models to interpret and simplify privacy policies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms all other publicly available privacy policy corpora and is ten times larger than the next largest public collection of privacy policies combined. |
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