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Thomas Norton

3 accepted papers

2024

Creation and Analysis of an International Corpus of Privacy Laws

COLING 2024main

The landscape of privacy laws and regulations around the world is complex and ever-changing. National and super-national laws, agreements, decrees, and other government-issued rules form a patchwork that companies must follow to operate internationally. To examine the status and evolution of this pa…

Cited by 10SourcePDFScholar
2021

Breaking Down Walls of Text: How Can NLP Benefit Consumer Privacy?

ACL 2021long

Privacy plays a crucial role in preserving democratic ideals and personal autonomy. The dominant legal approach to privacy in many jurisdictions is the “Notice and Choice” paradigm, where privacy policies are the primary instrument used to convey information to users. However, privacy policies are l…

Cited by 34SourcePDFScholar
2021

Intent Classification and Slot Filling for Privacy Policies

ACL 2021long

Understanding privacy policies is crucial for users as it empowers them to learn about the information that matters to them. Sentences written in a privacy policy document explain privacy practices, and the constituent text spans convey further specific information about that practice. We refer to p…