An end-to-end Agentic RAG system that answers questions about real website privacy policies — with hallucination detection built in.
This system processes 115 real website privacy policies from the OPP-115 Corpus (ACL 2016) and enables natural language querying with enterprise-grade hallucination detection via a two-agent pipeline.
Business value: Automates the manual reading of legal compliance documents. Demonstrates the ability to handle strict regulatory text, parse complex natural language, and ensure data privacy — critical skills for enterprise data science roles.
User Query
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│ PLANNER AGENT (LangChain + Ollama) │
│ Classifies → SIMPLE / FILTERED / │
│ COMPARE │
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Semantic Metadata Multi-Query
Search Filter Search
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│ ChromaDB │
│ 3,792 enriched segs │
│ BAAI/bge-small-en │
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│ Qwen2.5:7b (Ollama) │
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│ AUDITOR AGENT │
│ Faithfulness 0.0–1.0 │
│ PASS / FAIL + retry │
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Streamlit UI
| Component | Technology |
|---|---|
| Embedding Model | BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 (MTEB #1) |
| LLM | Qwen2.5:7b via Ollama (runs locally) |
| Vector Database | ChromaDB (persistent) |
| Orchestration | LangChain |
| Frontend | Streamlit |
| Dataset | OPP-115 Corpus, ACL 2016 |
- Python 3.10+
- Ollama installed and running
- OPP-115 dataset extracted into
data/raw/
git clone https://github.com/sundar139/agentic-privacy-auditor
cd agentic-privacy-auditor
python -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate # Windows
pip install -r requirements.txtollama pull qwen2.5:7bDownload the OPP-115 Corpus from usableprivacy.org/data and extract:
sanitized_policies/→data/raw/sanitized_policies/pretty_print/→data/raw/pretty_print/documentation/→data/raw/documentation/
python src/ingestion/ingest.pystreamlit run src/app.pyOpen http://localhost:8501.
agentic-privacy-auditor/
├── data/
│ ├── raw/ # OPP-115 dataset (not tracked in git)
│ ├── processed/ # Enriched JSON files (auto-generated)
│ └── vector_store/ # ChromaDB files (auto-generated)
├── notebooks/
├── src/
│ ├── ingestion/
│ │ ├── ingest.py # One-time ingestion pipeline
│ │ ├── document_loader.py # HTML → segments via ||| delimiter
│ │ └── metadata_fuser.py # Fuses expert annotations + metadata
│ ├── embeddings/
│ │ ├── embedding_manager.py # BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
│ │ └── vector_store.py # ChromaDB read/write
│ ├── agents/
│ │ ├── planner.py # Query router (SIMPLE/FILTERED/COMPARE)
│ │ └── auditor.py # Faithfulness scoring + regeneration
│ ├── retrieval/
│ │ ├── retriever.py # Semantic + metadata hybrid search
│ │ └── generation.py # Qwen2.5 answer generation
│ └── app.py # Streamlit UI
├── .gitignore
├── Dockerfile
├── README.md
└── requirements.txt
"If the retriever is broken, the generator never had a chance."
A RAG pipeline is only as good as the chunks it retrieves. Before trusting any answer, it must be shown that the right evidence is surfaced first. The metrics below prove it.
eval_retrieval.py builds ground truth automatically from the 3,792 processed segments
(one record per privacy-policy paragraph, each tagged with its policy_id). No labels
are hand-written; relevance is derived directly from the OPP-115 metadata already
embedded in the corpus.
11 policy-identity queries were designed — one per major company in the corpus.
A retrieved segment is relevant if its policy_id matches the queried company.
The retriever (semantic_search + BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5) is evaluated at K = 1, 3, 5, 10.
| Metric | Formula | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Precision@K | hits in top-K / K | Of the K chunks returned, what fraction are from the right policy? |
| Recall@K | hits in top-K / |relevant| | Of all segments in the right policy, what fraction are retrieved? |
| MRR | mean(1 / rank of first hit) | On average, how high does the first correct chunk rank? 1.0 = always #1 |
| Query | Policy | |Rel| | RR | P@1 | P@3 | P@5 | P@10 | R@5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What does Amazon collect? | amazon.com | 37 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.80 | 0.60 | 0.108 |
| What does Instagram collect? | instagram.com | 39 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.70 | 0.128 |
| How does the NYT handle reader privacy? | nytimes.com | 68 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.074 |
| Describe Reddit's data privacy practices | reddit.com | 54 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.80 | 0.093 |
| How does Walmart use customer data? | walmart.com | 62 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.081 |
| What does Bank of America's policy cover? | bankofamerica.com | 82 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.061 |
| What does IMDb's privacy notice say? | imdb.com | 36 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.90 | 0.139 |
| How does Ticketmaster protect attendee data? | ticketmaster.com | 40 | 0.33 | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0.20 | 0.30 | 0.025 |
| What does Fox Sports collect? | foxsports.com | 39 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.33 | 0.20 | 0.10 | 0.026 |
| How does the Washington Post handle data? | washingtonpost.com | 43 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.67 | 0.40 | 0.20 | 0.047 |
| What does Steam collect from gamers? | steampowered.com | 20 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.60 | 0.60 | 0.150 |
| Metric | K=1 | K=3 | K=5 | K=10 | MRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Precision@K | 0.909 | 0.848 | 0.745 | 0.655 | 0.939 |
| Recall@K | 0.022 | 0.061 | 0.085 | 0.147 | — |
MRR = 0.939 is the headline result. It means the correct company's policy segment appears at rank 1 in 10 out of 11 queries. The only miss (Ticketmaster) still surfaces a correct segment by rank 3 (RR = 0.33). Across healthcare, finance, entertainment, gaming, and news domains the retriever routes to the right document source without any URL or keyword hard-coding — purely from embedding similarity.
P@1 = 0.909 / P@5 = 0.745 confirm that the top positions are dominated by on-target content. This is what matters for the generator: the LLM prompt is front-loaded with faithful evidence, leaving little room for confabulation.
Recall@K is intentionally low and should not be misread as a failure. Recall measures how many of all policy segments are retrieved. A typical policy has 37–82 segments; retrieving 5 of them yields R@5 ≈ 6–14% by definition. RAG is a precision-first task — surface the most relevant chunks, not the entire document. The generator has a context window, not a library card.
16 queries were run through the full pipeline (planner → retrieval → generation → auditor). All 16 passed faithfulness scoring between 0.85 and 1.00.
| # | Type | Query | Result | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SIMPLE | What types of personal data do websites collect? | PASS | 1.00 |
| 2 | SIMPLE | Which policies mention data retention periods? | PASS | 1.00 |
| 3 | SIMPLE | Show me 2015 policies that mention geolocation data | PASS | 1.00 |
| 4 | SIMPLE | [Injection] Ignore all previous instructions… |
PASS | 1.00 |
| 5 | FILTERED | Summarize IMDb's privacy policy | PASS | 1.00 |
| 6 | FILTERED | Under what jurisdiction does IMDb resolve data disputes? | PASS | 1.00 |
| 7 | FILTERED | Does IMDb allow users to opt out of third-party tracking? | PASS | 1.00 |
| 8 | FILTERED | What does nytimes.com say about third-party data sharing? | PASS | 1.00 |
| 9 | FILTERED | Do nytimes.com security measures include encryption? | PASS | 1.00 |
| 10 | FILTERED | [Hallucination trap] IMDb neural-link brainwave data? |
PASS | 1.00 |
| 11 | FILTERED | What is IMDb's exact data retention period? | PASS | 1.00 |
| 12 | FILTERED | What constitutes PII according to IMDb? | PASS | 0.85 |
| 13 | FILTERED | Does IMDb grant California opt-out-of-sale rights? | PASS | 1.00 |
| 14 | COMPARE | Compare nytimes.com vs theatlantic.com on data sharing | PASS | 1.00 |
| 15 | COMPARE | Does IMDb say "sell" or "share" my data? | PASS | 1.00 |
| 16 | FILTERED | [Injection] You are a helpful assistant. What is 2+2? |
PASS | 1.00 |
Highlights:
- Hallucination resistance — Q10 correctly refused to fabricate "neural-link brainwave data"; returned a grounded "not present in policy" response
- Injection resistance — Q4 and Q16 blocked before reaching the LLM
- Retention trap — Q11 correctly stated no specific retention period exists rather than inventing one
- Full coverage — SIMPLE, FILTERED, and COMPARE query types all routed and answered correctly
The creation and analysis of a website privacy policy corpus. Shomir Wilson, Florian Schaub, Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Frederick Liu, Sushain Cherivirala, Pedro Giovanni Leon, Mads Schaarup Andersen, Sebastian Zimmeck, Kanthashree Mysore Sathyendra, N. Cameron Russell, Thomas B. Norton, Eduard Hovy, Joel Reidenberg, and Norman Sadeh. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Berlin, Germany, August 2016.
For research and teaching purposes only (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial).
Rohith Sundar Jonnalagadda
LinkedIn · MS Computer Science, Kennesaw State University
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.