| Title | Privacy Policies of Mobile Apps - A Usability Study |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2021 |
| Authors | Anikeev, Maxim, Shulman, Haya, Simo, Hervais |
| Conference Name | IEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS) |
| Keywords | Conferences, data privacy, Human Behavior, law enforcement, Measurement, Metrics, mobile applications, Mobile Apps, privacy, Privacy Policies, pubcrawl, readability metrics, Scalability |
| Abstract | We perform the first post EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) usability study of privacy policies for mobile apps. For our analysis, we collect a dataset of historical (prior to GDPR implementation in May 2018) and contemporary privacy policies in different categories. In contrast to the common belief, that after the GDPR most of the privacy policies are easier to understand, our analysis shows that this is not so. |
| DOI | 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS51825.2021.9484434 |
| Citation Key | anikeev_privacy_2021 |
Privacy Policies of Mobile Apps - A Usability Study