Do Privacy Policies Match with the Logs? An Empirical Study of Privacy Disclosure in Android Application Logs

arXiv:2604.18552 · cs.CR, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-08-19 · Read on arXiv

Zhiyuan Chen, Love Jayesh Ahir, Ahmad Suleiman, Kundi Yao, Yiming Tang, Weiyi Shang, Daqing Hou

cs.CR, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-08-19

Updated: 2026-08-20

Code: https://github.com/SEDA-RIT/PrivacyPolicy

Terminology

• Alignment — 16× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accountability — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• General Data Protection Regulation — 3× in this paper
• Conference on Automated Software Engineering — 2× in this paper
• Personalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• California Consumer Privacy Act — 1× in this paper
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal Perspectives
• Privacy Policies Across the Ages: Content and Readability of Privacy Policies 1996--2021

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