Through the Looking Glass: LLM-Based Analysis of AR/VR Android Applications Privacy Policies

TL;DR

This study uses BERT to analyze and compare privacy policies of AR/VR apps with websites, revealing industry trends and highlighting strategies for improving privacy policy clarity and effectiveness.

Contribution

It introduces a novel application of BERT for analyzing AR/VR privacy policies and compares these with website policies to assess privacy practices.

Findings

AR/VR apps have more positive privacy segments than free websites but fewer than premium sites.

AR/VR policies emphasize critical privacy practices and key terms.

Highlighting strategies improve policy clarity and effectiveness.

Abstract

\begin{abstract} This paper comprehensively analyzes privacy policies in AR/VR applications, leveraging BERT, a state-of-the-art text classification model, to evaluate the clarity and thoroughness of these policies. By comparing the privacy policies of AR/VR applications with those of free and premium websites, this study provides a broad perspective on the current state of privacy practices within the AR/VR industry. Our findings indicate that AR/VR applications generally offer a higher percentage of positive segments than free content but lower than premium websites. The analysis of highlighted segments and words revealed that AR/VR applications strategically emphasize critical privacy practices and key terms. This enhances privacy policies' clarity and effectiveness.