metadata
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
language:
- en
tags:
- App Privacy Policies
- Data Safety Labels
GoogleDataSafety
Data used in the papers:
- Unpacking Privacy Labels: A Measurement and Developer Perspective on Google's Data Safety Section
- The Overview of Privacy Labels and their Compatibility with Privacy Policies
- Comparing Privacy Labels of Applications in Android and iOS
Getting Started
In this dataset you have the following data:
- App Privacy Policies
- Data Safety Sections Labels
The data is collected from the apps in Google Play Store over the period of 2022-2023.
1. Code Structure
├── raw_policies/
│ ├── policy_raw_0.zip
│ ├── policy_raw_100000.zip
│ ├── policy_raw_200000.zip
│ ├── policy_raw_300000.zip
│ └── ...
├── data_safety_sections/
│ ├── 05_30/
│ ├── 06_20/
│ ├── 06_28/
│ ├── 07_01/
│ └── ...
2. Using Privacy Policy Data
Unzip the zip file and you will see the following structure:
├── policy_raw_0/
│ ├── <app_id>
│ │ ├── <privacy_policy_timestamp>.txt # Raw HTML of the privacy policy
│ │ └── site.txt # URL of the privacy policy
│ └── ...
3. Loading DSS Label Data
import pandas as pd
# Load the data
# !pip install pyarrow
data = pd.read_parquet('data_safety_sections/05_30/all_data_05_30.brotli')
Contact
For any questions or feedback, feel free to contact Asmit Nayak and Rishabh Khandelwal.
Citation
If you find this dataset useful in your research or applications, please kindly cite:
@inproceedings {google_data_safety_section,
author = {Rishabh Khandelwal and Asmit Nayak and Paul Chung and Kassem Fawaz},
title = {Unpacking Privacy Labels: A Measurement and Developer Perspective on Google's Data Safety Section},
booktitle = {33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24)},
year = {2024},
address = {Philadelphia, PA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/khandelwal},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = aug
}