How Short Is Too Short? Implications of Length and Framing on the Effectiveness of Privacy Notices

By Joshua Gluck, Florian Schaub, Amy Friedman, Hana Habib, Norman M. Sadeh, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Yuvraj Agarwal. 2016

121 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Privacy & Security, Human-Computer Interaction

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Privacy & Security

1. Thorsten Holz
2. Kang G. Shin

In Human-Computer Interaction

1. Verena Rieser
2. Gavin Abercrombie
3. Dirk Hovy
4. A. S. Bergman
5. Emily Dinan
6. Shannon L. Spruit
7. Florian Schaub
8. Y-Lan Boureau

Citations in the corpus

• Anticipating Safety Issues in E2E Conversational AI: Framework and Tooling (2021, background): “For example, research comparing the effectiveness of different lengths of privacy notices found intermediate lengths to provide the most effective information (Gluck et al., 2016).”
• Polisis: Automated Analysis and Presentation of Privacy Policies Using Deep Learning (2018, background): “Users: Polisis can automatically populate several of the previously-proposed short notices for privacy policies, such as nutrition tables and privacy icons [3, 18, 31, 32].”
• We Value Your Privacy ... Now Take Some Cookies (2018, background): “[17] evaluated how the length of privacy notices affects awareness of certain practices and concluded that (automatically) shortening privacy policies has potential, but important aspects may get lost if not done carefully.”