Analysis of Transparency of Personal Data in Data Privacy Policies

This paper presents an evaluation of Personal Data Transparency performed in applications known and used by a large number of users. Transparency seeks to provide information on how personal data are collected, used and shared between systems and thus enable the individual producer to be knowledgeable and able to act within this process. The research was carried out with traditional users who evaluated the applications policies and answered a questionnaire with 8 questions about aspects that should provide transparency. The results showed that some elements were considered transparent, but others, usually related to computational infrastructure, still require improvements.