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Understanding and engaging with privacy policies is crucial for online privacy, yet these documents remain notoriously complex and difficult to navigate. We present PRISMe, an interactive browser extension that combines LLM-based policy…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Vincent Freiberger , Arthur Fleig , Erik Buchmann

Privacy policies are crucial for informing users about data practices, yet their length and complexity often deter users from reading them. In this paper, we propose an automated approach to identify and visualize data practices within…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mukund Srinath , Pranav Venkit , Maria Badillo , Florian Schaub , C. Lee Giles , Shomir Wilson

Organisations disclose their privacy practices by posting privacy policies on their website. Even though users often care about their digital privacy, they often don't read privacy policies since they require a significant investment in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Mukund Srinath , Shomir Wilson , C. Lee Giles

Privacy policies are the main way to obtain information related to personal data collection and processing. Originally, privacy policies were presented as textual documents. However, the unsuitability of this format for the needs of today's…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Victor Morel , Raúl Pardo

Highlighting while reading is a natural behavior for people to track salient content of a document. It would be desirable to teach an extractive summarizer to do the same. However, a major obstacle to the development of a supervised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Kristjan Arumae , Fei Liu

Community Question Answering (CQA) fora such as Stack Overflow and Yahoo! Answers contain a rich resource of answers to a wide range of community-based questions. Each question thread can receive a large number of answers with different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Alexander R. Fabbri , Xiaojian Wu , Srini Iyer , Haoran Li , Mona Diab

The proliferation of AI agents, with their complex and context-dependent actions, renders conventional privacy paradigms obsolete. This position paper argues that the current model of privacy management, rooted in a user's unilateral…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shuning Zhang , Ying Ma , Jingruo Chen , Simin Li , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

In a typical customer service chat scenario, customers contact a support center to ask for help or raise complaints, and human agents try to solve the issues. In most cases, at the end of the conversation, agents are asked to write a short…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Guy Feigenblat , Chulaka Gunasekara , Benjamin Sznajder , Sachindra Joshi , David Konopnicki , Ranit Aharonov

Protecting online privacy requires users to engage with and comprehend website privacy policies, but many policies are difficult and tedious to read. We present the first qualitative user study on Large Language Model (LLM)-driven privacy…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Vincent Freiberger , Arthur Fleig , Erik Buchmann

Informed consent has become increasingly salient for data privacy and its regulation. Entities from governments to for-profit companies have addressed concerns about data privacy with policies that enumerate the conditions for personal data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Chinmaya Dabral , Emma Tosch , Chris Martens

Privacy regulations such as the CCPA and GDPR grant individuals rights over their personal data, yet it remains challenging for most users to exercise them in practice due to vague policy interpretation and unapproachable settings on web…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Qi Sun , Ziyang Li , Yinzhi Cao , Yaxing Yao

Automatic summarization of natural language is a widely studied area in computer science, one that is broadly applicable to anyone who routinely needs to understand large quantities of information. For example, in the medical domain, recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Max Savery , Asma Ben Abacha , Soumya Gayen , Dina Demner-Fushman

Automated analysis of privacy policies has proved a fruitful research direction, with developments such as automated policy summarization, question answering systems, and compliance detection. Prior research has been limited to analysis of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Ryan Amos , Gunes Acar , Eli Lucherini , Mihir Kshirsagar , Arvind Narayanan , Jonathan Mayer

Tabular data provide answers to a significant portion of search queries. However, reciting an entire result table is impractical in conversational search systems. We propose to generate natural language summaries as answers to describe the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Shuo Zhang , Zhuyun Dai , Krisztian Balog , Jamie Callan

Anonymizing textual documents is a highly context-sensitive problem: the appropriate balance between privacy protection and utility preservation varies with the data domain, privacy objectives, and downstream application. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Gabriel Loiseau , Damien Sileo , Damien Riquet , Maxime Meyer , Marc Tommasi

Many software systems, such as online social networks enable users to share information about themselves. While the action of sharing is simple, it requires an elaborate thought process on privacy: what to share, with whom to share, and for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Gonul Ayci , Murat Sensoy , Arzucan Özgür , Pınar Yolum

Software systems are ubiquitous, and their use is ingrained in our everyday lives. They enable us to get in touch with people quickly and easily, support us in gathering information, and help us perform our daily tasks. In return, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Wasja Brunotte , Alexander Specht , Larissa Chazette , Kurt Schneider

While many online services provide privacy policies for end users to read and understand what personal data are being collected, these documents are often lengthy and complicated. As a result, the vast majority of users do not read them at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Bhanuka Silva , Dishanika Denipitiyage , Suranga Seneviratne , Anirban Mahanti , Aruna Seneviratne

Legal documents are often long, dense, and difficult to comprehend, not only for laypeople but also for legal experts. While automated document summarization has great potential to improve access to legal knowledge, prevailing task-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tsz Fung Pang , Maryam Berijanian , Thomas Orth , Breanna Shi , Charlotte S. Alexander

State-of-the-art extractive multi-document summarization systems are usually designed without any concern about privacy issues, meaning that all documents are open to third parties. In this paper we propose a privacy-preserving approach to…