Enabling Multilingual Privacy Policy Audits: Large-Scale Analysis of Spanish Mobile Apps
Automated analyses of privacy policies enable large-scale assessments of transparency in digital ecosystems, yet existing auditing pipelines remain predominantly English-centric. This limits their ability to systematically evaluate multilingual environments, as in the European Union, where many services disclose privacy practices only in local languages. This paper examines whether large language models (LLMs) can extend privacy policy analysis beyond English without requiring language-specific
Researchers analyzed 2,611 Spanish mobile apps using large language models, finding discrepancies between declared and observed privacy practices, especially in public-sector apps. The study reveals linguistic barriers in privacy policy audits, with public-sector apps mostly in Spanish and commercial apps in English. This highlights limitations of English-only audits.
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