PriBOM: Enhancing Collaborative Privacy Notice Generation for Mobile App Development

This project addresses the challenges that mobile app developers face when creating accurate and comprehensive privacy notices, especially in complex, collaborative environments.

The project introduces PriBOM as a systematic software engineering solution that facilitates transparency and collaboration by indexing privacy information related to UI widgets, permissions, third-party libraries, and privacy notices.

This approach ensures the traceability and trackability of privacy practices, helping developers, legal teams, and other stakeholders manage privacy more efficiently.

The effectiveness of PriBOM was evaluated through a survey with 150 participants, revealing that it can significantly improve privacy notice generation and transparency in mobile app development.

Project Lead

Zhen Tao (Australian National University)

Project Team

Shidong Pan (Australian National University), Zhenchang Xing (CSIRO's Data61), Xiaoyu Sun (Australian National University), Dr Omar Haggag, Prof John Grundy (Monash University), Ze Shi Li (University of Victoria), Jingjie Li (University of Edinburgh), Liming Zhu (CSIRO's Data61)