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Honesty is the Best Policy: On the Accuracy of Apple Privacy Labels Compared to Apps' Privacy Policies. (arXiv:2306.17063v1 [cs.CR])
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Apple introduced \textit{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 do also require developers to provide a privacy policy, which
offers an important comparison point. In this paper, we applied the NLP
framework of Polisis to extract features of the privacy policy for 515,920 apps
on the iOS App Store comparing the output to the privacy labels. We identify
discrepancies between the policies …
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