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

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Getting Started

In this dataset you have the following data:

1. App Privacy Policies
2. Data Safety Sections Labels

The data is collected from the apps in Google Play Store over the period of 2022-2023.

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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')

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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
}