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Turning up the heat on Web privacy

Turning up the heat on Web privacy
When Microsoft introduced version 6 of its Internet Explorer browser last year, many Webmasters were puzzled to find that their cookies were being blocked in increasing numbers. The culprit was IE's default implementation of the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P), and for that, the irate Webmasters had Lorrie Cranor to thank.

Posted by rshah on December 05, 2002| Comments (0)

Promise of P3P stalls as backers regroup

Promise of P3P stalls as backers regroup
Six months after its recommendation as an Internet standard, a major privacy initiative is entering an awkward adolescence as software heavyweights adopt it and individual Web sites leave it to languish.

Posted by rshah on November 16, 2002| Comments (0)

Promise of P3P stalls as backers regroup

Posted by rshah on October 29, 2002| Comments (0)

Industry group issues privacy standard

Industry group issues privacy standard
The W3C, a Web standards body, has declared the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0, or P3P, a W3C recommendation, essentially endorsing the technology as a standard.

Posted by rshah on April 17, 2002| Comments (0)

Web sites consider standard privacy disclosure

Web sites consider standard privacy disclosure
Dozens of the Web's top sites are adopting the Internet's version of nutrition labels, giving visitors a quick sense of how well they honor surfers' personal privacy. Yet while no major Web site has publicly rejected P3P, many are noncommittal. They're waiting to see what competitors do and whether consumers demand it. Consumers, meanwhile, are vaguely aware and hence generally don't know if they should care.

Posted by rshah on March 18, 2002| Comments (0)

Zero-Knowledge launches P3P Analyzer

Zero-Knowledge launches P3P Analyzer
The Montreal-based company's P3P Analyzer, a free beta service, lets companies test whether their Web sites comply with a privacy standard known as Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) and its implementation in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.

Posted by rshah on March 06, 2002| Comments (0)

P3P and IE 6: Raising More Privacy Issues Than They Resolve?

P3P and IE 6: Raising More Privacy Issues Than They Resolve?
This article explains how P3P works, how IE 6 interprets it and why the system may fall short of being a useful solution to the concerns of online privacy.

Posted by rshah on March 06, 2002| Comments (0)

P3P's Arrival Raises Concerns

P3P's Arrival Raises Concerns
Wright has developed a method for companies to disclaim or disavow their P3P statements, which otherwise may cause the company unwanted liability. Wright has published a new P3P code called DSA, which means "disavow P3P and P3P liability." He said that DSA enables a company to put its privacy policy into P3P format, but then add DSA to the end of the code, effectively saying that the codes have no legal meaning and that users cannot take the company to court over what is expressed in the codes.

Posted by rshah on October 05, 2001| Comments (0)

WANT P3P? GET IE6

WANT P3P? GET IE6
CNET and the WSJ discusses Microsoft's decision to limit P3P privacy protection to its forthcoming IE6 browser. This means that Passport users will have to also use IE6 to take advantage of P3P. Increasing Passport's reliance on IE6, which is in turn tied to its latest operating system, could also fuel antitrust arguments.

Posted by rshah on August 10, 2001| Comments (0)

Putting privacy into practice

Putting privacy into practice
THE RACE IS ON for enterprises with any significant Web presence to make their sites compliant with a new standard called P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences), which mandates that Web sites provide machine-readable versions of data-collection and -sharing practices. But the grueling process of settling on privacy practices -- and formulating sound policies that reflect those practices -- remains the most difficult part of the modern corporate dance with consumer privacy, most agree.

Posted by rshah on July 09, 2001| Comments (0)

IE6 to Implement W3C Privacy Standard P3P

IE6 to Implement W3C Privacy Standard P3P
See also Slashdot

Posted by rshah on June 17, 2001| Comments (0)

Recoding the Architecture of Cyberspace Privacy

Recoding the Architecture of Cyberspace Privacy
Comprehensive page on the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P)

Posted by rshah on June 07, 2001| Comments (0)

Comments in Microsoft's P3P

Comments in Microsoft's P3P
Privacy experts are giving mixed reviews about Microsoft's P3P privacy plans. While many believe that MS is taking a step in the right direction, there are worries that average consumers would not go through the effort to ensure the privacy settings match their needs.

Posted by rshah on March 23, 2001| Comments (0)

Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) by Privacy.net

Posted by rshah on February 02, 2001| Comments (0)

P3P

P3P
by Simon Garfinkel

Posted by rshah on August 04, 2000| Comments (0)

Architecture is Policy

Architecture is Policy
Case study on Privacy by the EFF

Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)

P3P

P3P
Article in Intellectual Capital on Jeffrey Fisher at Computers, Freedom & Privacy '99, was at http://intellectualcapital.com/issues/issue217/item3653.asp

Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)

P3P

P3P
NY Times article

Posted by rshah on June 24, 2000| Comments (0)