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arXiv Computation and Language By Thomas Brackin

Privacy Washing: Detecting Internal Contradictions in Privacy Policies

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The study introduces a four‑stage pipeline to detect internal contradictions—termed privacy washing—in privacy policies. Applied to two corpora (123 policies from 2026 and 115 from 2015), the pipeline identifies contradictions in 12.2% of the newer policies and 36.5% of the older ones, with third‑party sharing conflicts being the most common. A stability re‑run confirms similar prevalence rates and shows that the majority of contradictions are consistent across different model configurations.

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