Privacy Later: Reflections on Design Decisions, Lessons Learned, and Open Problems of the OPP-115 Corpus a Decade After Release

Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Norman Sadeh


Abstract
The OPP-115 Corpus of annotated privacy policies was released by the Usable Privacy Policy Project in 2016 and was the first large-scale effort to annotate privacy policies in a fine level of detail. Since then, it has been used by natural language processing (NLP) researchers working on automated analysis of websites’ and applications privacy policy documents, with efforts continuing in the present day. We share reflections on design decisions that went into the creation of the corpus and lessons learned from obstacles associated with it. Additionally, we describe open problems in research on privacy documents that the OPP-115 Corpus introduced or brought attention toward. These open problems show the continuing need for research on privacy policy text to support consumers’ digital privacy.
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Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026
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2026
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Budapest, Hungary
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Nikolaos Aletras, Ilias Chalkidis, Leslie Barrett, Cătălina Goanță, Daniel Preoțiuc-Pietro, Gerasimos Spanakis, Shanshan Xu
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Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, and Norman Sadeh. 2026. Privacy Later: Reflections on Design Decisions, Lessons Learned, and Open Problems of the OPP-115 Corpus a Decade After Release. In Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2026, pages 94–100, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Privacy Later: Reflections on Design Decisions, Lessons Learned, and Open Problems of the OPP-115 Corpus a Decade After Release (Wilson et al., NLLP 2026)
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