AI-Based Analysis of Policies and Images for Privacy-Conscious Content Sharing

Francesco Contu, Andrea Demontis, Stefano Dessì, Marco Muscas and Daniele Riboni
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Francesco Contu: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Andrea Demontis: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Stefano Dessì: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Marco Muscas: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Daniele Riboni: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy

Future Internet, 2021, vol. 13, issue 6, 1-21

Abstract: Thanks to the popularity of personal mobile devices, more and more of the different types of private content, such as images and videos, are shared on social networking applications. While content sharing may be an effective practice to enhance social relationships, it is also a source of relevant privacy issues. Unfortunately, users find it difficult to understanding the terms and implications of the privacy policies of apps and services. Moreover, taking privacy decisions about content sharing on social networks is cumbersome and prone to errors that could determine privacy leaks. In this paper, we propose two techniques aimed at supporting the user in taking privacy choices about sharing personal content online. Our techniques are based on machine learning and natural language processing to analyze privacy policies, and on computer vision to assist the user in the privacy-conscious sharing of multimedia content. Experiments with real-world data show the potential of our solutions. We also present ongoing work on a system prototype and chatbot for natural language user assistance.

Keywords: privacy policy assistant; social networks; artificial intelligence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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