The purpose of this observatory is to monitor and analyse, from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives, the level of compliance of digital service providers among European digital market.
The project website hosts an online Observatory dedicated to presenting part of the empirical analyses conducted within the PRIMA project. The Observatory provides a structured overview of selected results derived from the analysis of the PRIMA dataset, which currently consists of 30 privacy policies collected from different market sectors and annotated according to the project’s legal and methodological framework.
Within this Observatory, we present both quantitative and qualitative analyses of the empirical data obtained through the annotation process. The aim is to make visible recurring patterns in the structure and content of privacy policies, with particular attention to the types of clauses used to inform data subjects and to potential shortcomings in the information provided. The Observatory therefore serves both as a dissemination tool and as a resource for exploring current practices in the drafting of privacy policies.
More specifically, the empirical socio-legal objective of the project is to explore systematic patterns of potentially unfair or non-compliant data practices. To this end, the project conducts both quantitative and qualitative analyses to assess the extent to which the privacy policies included in the tagged corpus deviate from the gold standard identified through the doctrinal legal analysis.
For this purpose, the tagged documents are grouped by market sector, enabling the examination of how specific (potentially) unfair privacy policy practices are distributed across different sectors. This approach makes it possible to identify recurring drafting patterns, correlations between types of clauses and sectors of activity, and systematic shortcomings in the way information is provided to data subjects. Through these analyses, the Observatory highlights both problematic practices and areas where improvements in transparency and legal compliance are needed.
Market Sectors and their Digital Service providers