Aggregating a collection of historical website privacy policies spanning a period of over 20 years. It documents the evolution of digital privacy disclosures and legal language across thousands of web domains from the early 2000s to the present.
Use Cases
- Perform longitudinal NLP analysis to track the change in readability scores of policy text over two decades
- Train machine learning models to detect the introduction of specific regulatory clauses using the policy text and timestamp features
- Analyze the shift in data collection practices by comparing keyword frequencies across different years in the dataset
Strengths
- Temporal coverage spanning over 20 years of historical web data
- Unstructured text data representing privacy disclosures from diverse industries
- Chronological snapshots that allow for the tracking of legal language evolution over time