Longitudinal corpus of privacy policies

This is a corpus of 56,416 unique privacy policy texts spanning the years 1996-2021.

• policy-texts.zip contains a directory of text files with the policy texts. File names are the hashes of the policy text.
• policy-metadata.zip contains two CSV files (can be imported into a pandas dataframe) with policy metadata including readability measures for each policy text.
• labeled-policies.zip contains CSV files with content labels for each policy. Labeling was done using a BERT classifier.

Details on the methodology can be found in the accompanying paper:

Isabel Wagner. 2023. Privacy Policies across the Ages: Content of Privacy Policies 1996–2021. ACM Trans. Priv. Secur. 26, 3, Article 32 (August 2023), 32 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3590152