AI tool scans privacy notices to inform users on data collection
A 2008 study conducted by a pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers found it would take the average person 201 hours to read every privacy notice they encountered in a calendar year. Since then, the number of websites, apps, and services have skyrocketed, and in Feb. 2016, a different pair of researchers took notice of the rise in popularity of “chatbots” and decided to create one to answer questions about organizations’ privacy policies.
That bot would eventually be called PriBot, and it was brought to fruition by Hamza Harkous, a postdoctoral researcher at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, and Kassem Fawaz, assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
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