Establishing a Strong Baseline for Privacy Policy Classification - ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection
Conference Papers Year : 2020

Establishing a Strong Baseline for Privacy Policy Classification

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Digital service users are routinely exposed to Privacy Policy consent forms, through which they enter contractual agreements consenting to the specifics of how their personal data is managed and used. Nevertheless, despite renewed importance following legislation such as the European GDPR, a majority of people still ignore policies due to their length and complexity. To counteract this potentially dangerous reality, in this paper we present three different models that are able to assign pre-defined categories to privacy policy paragraphs, using supervised machine learning. In order to train our neural networks, we exploit a dataset containing 115 privacy policies defined by US companies. An evaluation shows that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art by 5% over comparable and previously-reported F1 values. In addition, our method is completely reproducible since we provide open access to all resources. Given these two contributions, our approach can be considered as a strong baseline for privacy policy classification.
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hal-03440825 , version 1 (22-11-2021)

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Najmeh Mousavi Nejad, Pablo Jabat, Rostislav Nedelchev, Simon Scerri, Damien Graux. Establishing a Strong Baseline for Privacy Policy Classification. 35th IFIP International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (SEC), Sep 2020, Maribor, Slovenia. pp.370-383, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-58201-2_25⟩. ⟨hal-03440825⟩
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