# "You don't need a university degree to comprehend data protection this way": LLM-Powered Interactive Privacy Policy Assessment

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03587 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.03587/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 5 Mar 2025.

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- [A Systematic Evaluation of Traditional Privacy Policy Analysis Tools Against LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.17075/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Protecting online privacy requires users to engage with and comprehend website privacy policies, but many policies are difficult and tedious to read. We present the first qualitative user study on Large Language Model (LLM)-driven privacy policy assessment. To this end, we build and evaluate an LLM-based privacy policy assessment browser extension, which helps users understand the essence of a lengthy, complex privacy policy while browsing. The tool integrates a dashboard and an LLM chat. In our qualitative user study (N=22), we evaluate usability, understandability of the information our tool provides, and its impacts on awareness. While providing a comprehensible quick overview and a chat for in-depth discussion improves privacy awareness, users note issues with building trust in the tool. From our insights, we derive important design implications to guide future policy analysis tools.