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Is W3C's P3P Good Privacy?

Posted by Cliff on from the sharing-those-first-impressions dept.

nileshch asks: "A very important development in recent times with regards to website users' privacy has happened with the W3C introducing the Platform for Privacy Preferences(P3P). P3P allows websites to create and maintain XML-based privacy policies for the entire website or sub sections of the site. These machine readable policies document what information is collected from users and how it is going to be used. Today, a few browsers like Mozilla/Netscape & Internet Explorer are committed to giving support for P3P (Mozilla here, IE here) . Although that support seems only skin-deep. I also find very few big sites adopting P3P seriously. Isn't it like the classic chicken-and-egg situation? Websites wait for full P3P support on browsers, browsers go slow on development because there isn't much feature demand happening on this front. Do you have P3P policies for your website? If not, what stops you from creating one? We all create hoopla over tiny privacy issues, user profiling and doubleclick.net . Then why isn't there much enthusiasm for P3P support in browsers?"

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  4. porn by Brian+Boitano · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this way people will never know I'm downloading porn!

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  5. Since this is Slashdot and I'm lazy... by Phroggy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...can someone summarize what this means to me? I'm not doing e-commerce or banner ads. Should I add something to my sites indicating that I don't track people? My home page uses cookies to track preferences and stuff; how does this affect that?

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