TY - JOUR

T1 - Data practices in apps from Brazil: What do privacy policies inform us about?

AU - Quadros dos Reis, Valéria

AU - Rabello, Maria E. R.

AU - Lima, Anderson C.

AU - Jardim, Guilherme P.S.

AU - Fernandes, Eraldo R.

AU - Brefeld, Ulf

N1 - Copyright (c) 2023 Valéria Quadros dos Reis, Maria E. R. Rabello, Anderson C. Lima, Guilherme P. S. Jardim, Eraldo R. Fernandes, Ulf Brefeld

PY - 2023/2/10

Y1 - 2023/2/10

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Cultural Informatics

KW - privacy corpus

KW - mobile applications

KW - LGPD

KW - personal data

KW - law compliance

U2 - 10.5753/jis.2023.2954

DO - 10.5753/jis.2023.2954

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 14

SP - 1

EP - 8

JO - Journal on Interactive Systems

JF - Journal on Interactive Systems

SN - 2763-7719

IS - 1

ER -