Dorfleitner, Gregor; Hornuf, Lars; Kreppmeier, Julia - 2021
This article analyzes how the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has affected the privacy practices of FinTech … firms. We study the content of 308 privacy statements respectively before and after the GDPR became binding. Using textual … analysis methods, we find that the readability of the privacy statements has decreased. The texts of privacy statements have …