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April 4, 2026Data in Brief3 citationsOpen Access

Longitudinal Datasets of Health App Reviews for Privacy and Trust Modeling

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TKTimoteo KellyAKAbdulkadir KorkmazSMSamuel Mallet

Key Points

  • The aim is to create a comprehensive dataset to analyze user privacy and trust in health applications.
  • Developed HARPT, a large-scale annotated corpus of user reviews.
  • Used keyword-based filtering and iterative manual labeling for data preparation.
  • Employed transformer-based classifiers for weak supervision.
  • Annotated a subset of 7,000 reviews for machine learning model evaluation.
  • Benchmarked various models to establish a performance baseline.
  • Created a dataset with 480,450 user reviews across seven trust and privacy-related classes.
  • Provided annotated data to improve future machine learning models in health informatics.
  • Established a baseline for evaluating various privacy and trust modeling strategies.

Abstract

We present Health App Reviews for Privacy & Trust (HARPT), a large-scale annotated corpus of user reviews from patient portal and telehealth applications (apps) aimed at advancing research in user privacy and trust. The dataset comprises 480,450 user reviews labeled across seven classes that capture critical aspects of trust in applications, trust in providers, and privacy concerns. Our multistage strategy integrated keyword-based filtering, iterative manual labeling with review, targeted data augmentation, and weak supervision using transformer-based classifiers. In parallel, we manually annotated a curated subset of 7,000 reviews to support the development and evaluation of machine learning models. We benchmarked a broad range of models, providing a baseline for future work. HARPT is released under an open resource license to support reproducible research in usable privacy, trust and health informatics.

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Kelly et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d0aeb9659487ece0fa4aebhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2026.112740
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