Attention Paid to Privacy Policy Statements

A Pilot Study of the Effectiveness of Privacy Policy Statements

An expectation exists, particularly in the U.S.A., that B2C web-site operators will provide public notice of their practices in relation to the personal data that they hold. Such documents are referred to in this paper as 'privacy policy statements' (PPS). Privacy is an important element in consumer trust, and hence in a consumer's decision to make purchases using Internet commerce services. PP...

A Step Towards Usable Privacy Policy: Automatic Alignment of Privacy Statements

With the rapid development of web-based services, concerns about user privacy have heightened. The privacy policies of online websites, which serve as a legal agreement between service providers and users, are not easy for people to understand and therefore offer an opportunity for natural language processing. In this paper, we consider a corpus of these policies, and tackle the problem of alig...

The Use of Goals to Extract Privacy and Security Requirements from Policy Statements

This paper addresses the use of goals to extract non-functional requirements from policy statements. Goals are important precursors to software requirements, but the process of abstracting them from security and policy policies has not been thoroughly researched. We present a summary of a goal-based approach for extracting standard security and privacy requirements from policy statements and il...

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Privacy and health in the information age: a content analysis of health web site privacy policy statements.

This article reports a content analysis of the privacy policy statements (PPSs) from 97 general reference health Web sites that was conducted to examine the ways in which visitors' privacy is constructed by health organizations. PPSs are formal documents created by the Web site owner to describe how information regarding site visitors and their behavior is collected and used. The results show t...