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Main Authors: Parsons, Jonathan, Schrider, Michael, Ogunlela, Oyebanjo, Ghanavati, Sepideh
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07650
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author Parsons, Jonathan
Schrider, Michael
Ogunlela, Oyebanjo
Ghanavati, Sepideh
author_facet Parsons, Jonathan
Schrider, Michael
Ogunlela, Oyebanjo
Ghanavati, Sepideh
contents With the growing global emphasis on regulating the protection of personal information and increasing user expectation of the same, developing with privacy in mind is becoming ever more important. In this paper, we study the concerns, questions, and solutions developers discuss on Reddit forums to enhance our understanding of their perceptions and challenges while developing applications in the current privacy-focused world. We perform various forms of Natural Language Processing (NLP) on 437,317 threads from subreddits such as r/webdev, r/androiddev, and r/iOSProgramming to identify both common points of discussion and how these points change over time as new regulations are passed around the globe. Our results show that there are common trends in privacy topics among the different subreddits while the frequency of those topics differs between web and mobile applications.
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spellingShingle Understanding Developers Privacy Concerns Through Reddit Thread Analysis
Parsons, Jonathan
Schrider, Michael
Ogunlela, Oyebanjo
Ghanavati, Sepideh
Software Engineering
Social and Information Networks
With the growing global emphasis on regulating the protection of personal information and increasing user expectation of the same, developing with privacy in mind is becoming ever more important. In this paper, we study the concerns, questions, and solutions developers discuss on Reddit forums to enhance our understanding of their perceptions and challenges while developing applications in the current privacy-focused world. We perform various forms of Natural Language Processing (NLP) on 437,317 threads from subreddits such as r/webdev, r/androiddev, and r/iOSProgramming to identify both common points of discussion and how these points change over time as new regulations are passed around the globe. Our results show that there are common trends in privacy topics among the different subreddits while the frequency of those topics differs between web and mobile applications.
title Understanding Developers Privacy Concerns Through Reddit Thread Analysis
topic Software Engineering
Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.07650