Papers

• Layered, Overlapping, and Inconsistent: A Large-Scale Analysis of the Multiple Privacy Policies and Controls of U.S. Banks. Lu Xian, Van Tran, Lauren Lee, Meera Kumar, Yichen Zhang, and Florian Schaub. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2025. 🏆 Distinguished Paper Award 🏆 CCS 2025.
• SoAC and SoACer: A Sector-Based Corpus and LLM-Based Framework for Sectoral Website Classification. Shahriar Shayesteh, Mukund Srinath, Lee Matheson, Lu Xian, Sinjoy Saha, C. Lee Giles, and Shomir Wilson. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2025 (DocEng ’25), Published: August 2025.
• Automated Detection and Analysis of Data Practices Using A Real-World Corpus. Mukund Srinath, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Maria Badillo, Florian Schaub, C. Lee Giles, Shomir Wilson. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, Pages 4567-4574. Published: August 2024.
• Privacy Lost and Found: An Investigation at Scale of Web Privacy Policy Availability. Mukund Srinath, Soundarya Sundareswara, Pranav Venkit, C. Lee Giles, Shomir Wilson. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2023 (DocEng '23), Article No.: 26, Pages 1 - 10. Published: 22 August 2023. 🏆 Best Paper Award 🏆 DocEng 2023
• Privacy Now or Never: Large-Scale Extraction and Analysis of Dates in Privacy Policy Text. Mukund Srinath, Lee Matheson, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, Florian Schaub, C Lee Giles, Shomir Wilson. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2023 (DocEng 2023), Published: 22 August 2023.
• Researchers’ Experiences in Analyzing Privacy Policies: Challenges and Opportunities. Abraham Mhaidli, Selin Fidan, An Doan, Gina Herakovic, Mukund Srinath, Lee Matheson, Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub. In Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2023). 🏆 Best Paper Award 🏆 PETS 2023
• Privacy at Scale: Introducing the PrivaSeer Corpus of Web Privacy Policies. Mukund Srinath, Shomir Wilson, and C. Lee Giles. In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2021.
• A large-scale exploration of terms of service documents on the web. Soundarya Nurani Sundareswara, Mukund Srinath, Shomir Wilson and C. Lee Giles. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng), 2021.
• PrivaSeer: A Privacy Policy Search Engine. Mukund Srinath, Soundarya Nurani Sundareswara, C. Lee Giles, and Shomir Wilson. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE), 2021.
• Privacy Not Found: A Study of the Availability of Privacy Policies on the Web. Soundarya Nurani Sundareswara, Shomir Wilson, Mukund Srinath, C. Lee Giles. In the Sixteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (unpublished work), held online, August 2020.