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

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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.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal on Interactive Systems
Volume14
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)1-8
Number of pages8
ISSN2763-7719
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10.02.2023

Bibliographical note

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© 2023, Brazilian Computing Society. All rights reserved.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education

Research areas and keywords

  • Cultural Informatics
  • privacy corpus
  • mobile applications
  • LGPD
  • personal data
  • law compliance

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