Data practices in apps from Brazil: What do privacy policies inform us about?
We present and analyze a new corpus comprising 82 privacy policies in Brazilian Portuguese collected from popular apps in Google Play Store called APP-BR. The contained documents are characterized by excessive lengths and poor readability. Analyzing their content reveals a severe lack of objectivit...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brazilian Computer Society
2023-02-01
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| Series: | Journal on Interactive Systems |
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| Online Access: | https://sol.sbc.org.br/journals/index.php/jis/article/view/2954 |
| Summary: | We present and analyze a new corpus comprising 82 privacy policies in Brazilian Portuguese collected from popular apps in Google Play Store called APP-BR. The contained documents are characterized by excessive lengths and poor readability. Analyzing their content reveals a severe lack of objectivity and compliance with the Brazilian General Data Protection Law. Our results shed light on the problems in accessing privacy information and are supposed to constitute a basis for finding a remedy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first effort to evaluate privacy policies according to the current Brazilian legislation.
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| ISSN: | 2763-7719 |