Data practices in apps from Brazil: What do privacy policies inform us about?
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In: Journal on Interactive Systems, Vol. 14, No. 1, 10.02.2023, p. 1-8.
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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 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023, Brazilian Computing Society. All rights reserved.
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
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85205024843&partnerID=8YFLogxK
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 -