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A Tale Of Two Regulatory Regimes: Creation And Analysis Of A Bilingual Privacy Policy Corpus, Siddhant Arora, Henry Hosseini, Christine Utz, Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar, Jasmine Mangat, Peter Story, Rex Chen, Martin Degeling, Tom Norton, Thomas Hupperich

Computer Science

Over the past decade, researchers have started to explore the use of NLP to develop tools aimed at helping the public, vendors, and regulators analyze disclosures made in privacy policies. With the introduction of new privacy regulations, the language of privacy policies is also evolving, and disclosures made by the same organization are not always the same in different languages, especially when used to communicate with users who fall under different jurisdictions. This work explores the use of language technologies to capture and analyze these differences at scale. We introduce an annotation scheme designed to capture the nuances of two …