What is TAPPA?
TAPPA (Toolkit for Automatic Privacy Policy Analysis) is a toolkit that aims to provide decision makers and policy analysts with a tool that let them analyze the state of a set of privacy policies. It consists of both a set of tools for analyzing privacy policies and a collection of privacy policies gathered from the Internet. These policies consists of both machine readable policies (P3P) and natural language policies. For a given policy, metadata (such as top level domain, country of registration, website traffic rank) are collected to make more complex analysis possible. Traditionally privacy policy analysis is a time-consuming task which may take a trained analyst half an hour or more for each policy to be analyzed. This toolkit aims to alleviate some of these burdens into automatic processing.
TAPPA was developed by the CMU Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory through the IBM Open Collaborative Research Initiative on Privacy and Security Policy Management.