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LLMs enable multilingual privacy policy audits, revealing language barriers

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Researchers have developed a method to audit privacy policies across multiple languages, overcoming the limitations of English-centric tools. Their approach uses large language models (LLMs) to achieve consistent cross-lingual performance in identifying personal data collection categories. A large-scale analysis of Spanish Android apps revealed that public sector apps primarily use Spanish privacy policies, while commercial apps often use English, highlighting a linguistic barrier that can obscure transparency issues. AI

IMPACT Enables more comprehensive privacy audits in multilingual digital environments, potentially leading to greater transparency and accountability for apps.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new methodology for privacy policy analysis. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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LLMs enable multilingual privacy policy audits, revealing language barriers

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Marcos Moran, David Rodriguez, Luka Nenadic, Norman Sadeh, Jose M. Del Alamo ·

    Enabling Multilingual Privacy Policy Audits: Large-Scale Analysis of Spanish Mobile Apps

    arXiv:2607.18424v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated analyses of privacy policies enable large-scale assessments of transparency in digital ecosystems, yet existing auditing pipelines remain predominantly English-centric. This limits their ability to systematically evaluat…

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