Privacy Policy Understandability Analysis of Croatian Electronic Publications

Information transparency in a field of data and privacy protection is not recent topic. For a long time it was approached from the perspective of software engineering and information system design, in which it was usually categorized as a non-functional requirement in relation to the functionality of the software, considered primarily as a quality issue and "second class” concept. But with enforcement of General Data Protection Regulation it has come in focus of research more prominently as a requirement in engineering privacy compliance. And for privacy instrument to be transparent, not only factor of informativeness, giving necessary information, needs to be adressed, but it's quality is also a prerequisite. Understandability is one of quality factors in achieving transparency. In paper, using readablity formulas, understandability of privacy instruments, privacy policies, of Croatia's most visited electronic publications is put to analysis.