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Honesty is the Best Policy: On the Accuracy of Apple Privacy Labels Compared to Apps' Privacy Policies
June 18, 2024, 4:19 a.m. | Mir Masood Ali, David G. Balash, Monica Kodwani, Chris Kanich, Adam J. Aviv
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Abstract: Apple introduced privacy labels in Dec. 2020 as a way for developers to report the privacy behaviors of their apps. While Apple does not validate labels, they also require developers to provide a privacy policy, which offers an important comparison point. In this paper, we fine-tuned BERT-based language models to extract privacy policy features for 474,669 apps on the iOS App Store, comparing the output to the privacy labels. We identify discrepancies between the policies …
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