Cross-language corpora of privacy policies

<p>The dataset consists of three different privacy policy corpora (in English and Italian) composed of 81 unique privacy policy texts spanning the period 2018-2021. This dataset makes available an example of three corpora of privacy policies. The first corpus is the English-language corpus, the original used in the study by Tang et al. [2]. The other two are cross-language corpora built (one, the source corpus, in English, and the other, the replication corpus, in Italian, which is the language of a potential replication study) from the first corpus.</p> <p>The policies were collected from:</p> <ol> <li>the Alexa top 10 Italy and U.S. websites rank;</li> <li>the Play Store apps rank in the &quot;most profitable games&quot; category of the Play Store for Italy and the U.S.</li> </ol> <p>We manually analyzed the Alexa top 10 Italy websites as of November 2021. Analogously, we analyzed selected apps that, in the same period, had ranked better in the &quot;most profitable games&quot; category of the Play Store for Italy.</p> <p>All the privacy policies are ANSI-encoded text files and have been manually read and verified.<br> The dataset is helpful as a starting point for building comparable cross-language privacy policies corpora. The availability of these comparable cross-language privacy policies corpora helps replicate studies in different languages.&nbsp;<br> Details on the methodology can be found in the accompanying paper.</p> <p>The available files are as follows:</p> <ul> <li><strong>policies-texts.zip</strong> --&gt;&nbsp;contains a directory of text files with the policy texts. File names are the SHA1 hashes of the policy text.</li> <li><strong>policy-metadata.csv</strong> --&gt;&nbsp;Contains a CSV file&nbsp;with the metadata&nbsp;for each privacy policy.</li> </ul> <p>This dataset is the original dataset used in the publication [1]. The original English U.S. corpus is described in the publication [2].</p> <p>[1] F. Ciclosi, S. Vidor and F. Massacci. &quot;Building cross-language corpora for human&nbsp;understanding of privacy policies.&quot; Workshop on Digital Sovereignty in Cyber Security: New Challenges in Future Vision. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, 2023, In press.</p> <p>[2] J. Tang, H. Shoemaker, A. Lerner, and E. Birrell. Defining Privacy: How Users&nbsp;Interpret Technical Terms in Privacy Policies. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing&nbsp;Technologies, 3:70&ndash;94, 2021.</p>