SoK: From Generation to Consumption of Privacy Documents in Software Systems
Privacy documents (e.g., privacy policies) are a central mechanism through which digital services disclose data practices and seek user consent. Over the past decades, research on privacy documents has expanded significantly, encompassing not only traditional privacy policies but also short notices (e.g., privacy labels) and interface-level transparency mechanisms. As this research area continues to grow, it has become increasingly difficult to obtain a coherent view of how privacy documents are created, analyzed, evaluated, and maintained across their lifecycle. This SoK provides a unified, lifecycle-oriented view of privacy documents from a software engineering perspective. We systemati...
| Authors | Shidong Pan, Clark LaChance, Zhen Tao et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CR |
| Published | 12 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 12 August 2026 |
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