  With the growing global emphasis on regulating the protection of personal
information and increasing user expectation of the same, developing with
privacy in mind is becoming ever more important. In this paper, we study the
concerns, questions, and solutions developers discuss on Reddit forums to
enhance our understanding of their perceptions and challenges while developing
applications in the current privacy-focused world. We perform various forms of
Natural Language Processing (NLP) on 437,317 threads from subreddits such as
r/webdev, r/androiddev, and r/iOSProgramming to identify both common points of
discussion and how these points change over time as new regulations are passed
around the globe. Our results show that there are common trends in privacy
topics among the different subreddits while the frequency of those topics
differs between web and mobile applications.

Software Engineering;Social and Information Networks