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

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Data practices in apps from Brazil: What do privacy policies inform us about? / Quadros dos Reis, Valéria; Rabello, Maria E. R.; Lima, Anderson C. et al.
In: Journal on Interactive Systems, Vol. 14, No. 1, 10.02.2023, p. 1-8.

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title = "Data practices in apps from Brazil: What do privacy policies inform us about?",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "Cultural Informatics, privacy corpus, mobile applications, LGPD, personal data, law compliance",
author = "{Quadros dos Reis}, Val{\'e}ria and Rabello, {Maria E. R.} and Lima, {Anderson C.} and Jardim, {Guilherme P.S.} and Fernandes, {Eraldo R.} and Ulf Brefeld",
note = "Copyright (c) 2023 Val{\'e}ria Quadros dos Reis, Maria E. R. Rabello, Anderson C. Lima, Guilherme P. S. Jardim, Eraldo R. Fernandes, Ulf Brefeld",
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