2023/05/24 by Michael Gebauer, Gebauer, Michael, Maschhur, Faraz +6
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting #Privacy, Security, and Data Protection #Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2305.15006
openalex publication_date 2023/05/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Machine-readable representations of privacy policies are door openers for a broad variety of novel privacy-enhancing and, in particular, transparency-enhancing technologies (TETs). In order to generate such representations, transparency information needs to be extracted from written privacy policies. However, respective manual annotation and extraction processes are laborious and require expert knowledge. Approaches for fully automated annotation, in turn, have so far not succeeded due to overly high error rates in the specific domain of privacy policies. In the end, a lack of properly annotated privacy policies and respective machine-readable representations persists and enduringly hinders the development and establishment of novel technical approaches fostering policy perception and data subject informedness. In this work, we present a prototype system for a `Human-in-the-Loop' approach to privacy policy annotation that integrates ML-generated suggestions and ultimately human annotation decisions. We propose an ML-based suggestion system specifically tailored to the constraint of data scarcity prevalent in the domain of privacy policy annotation. On this basis, we provide meaningful predictions to users thereby streamlining the annotation process. Additionally, we also evaluate our approach through a prototypical implementation to show that our ML-based extraction approach provides superior performance over other recently used extraction models for legal documents.