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Turning up the heat on Web privacy
News and Technology - CNETAsia - 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.
SuperCookies bypass P3P and cookie controls
Article by Richard M. Smith point out an Internet Explorer potential privacy design flaw.
Privacy in IE 6.0 MSDN Library Article
An overview on the privacy requirements of cookies associated with their sites and on the cookie filtering implemented in Internet Explorer 6.
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.
IE privacy flaw still causing leaks
New privacy-enhancing controls in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 can be rendered useless by a long-known security flaw in Windows Media Player.
News: Does P3P equal privacy?
COMMENTARY--Online privacy isn't the issue it once was, if indeed people really ever cared about it.
P3P privacy technology slammed
ZDNet News Article: Consumer groups say P3P technology allows companies to collect more consumer information, not less.
Companies move slowly on P3P adoption
CNN.com article: Some companies are gradually implementing the proposed Platform for Privacy Preferences[...] But it remains unclear whether P3P will succeed as a standard.
Promises, Promises, Promises-A Closer Look at P3P
Andy Oram article discussing P3P as a social protocol, as well as his views of the motivations behind the protocol.
E-Commerce News: White House, Industry Giants Back Net Privacy Project
Everything you need to know about doing business on the Internet. Information for C-Level executives and small-to-mid-sized business managers.
Pretty Poor Privacy: An Assessment of P3P and Internet Privacy
A critical article published by Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Junkbusters.
Adam Smith Leads P3P Privacy Resolution
Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) and 4 New Democrat colleagues in the House - introduce a resolution that recognizes the importance of the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) specification as a key tool for consumers who want to protect their privacy on the Internet. In an effort to promote widespread adoption of the technology, the resolution also urges all government and commercial web sites operators to make their sites P3P compliant.
P3P: Protector Of Consumers' Online Privacy
An overview of the W3C's new P3P protocol for implementing consumer privacy preferences. Includes discussion on Microsoft, I.E. 6 and online privacy for consumers.
Privacy Tools and Services Debut
A look at the emerging technologies and management of corporate privacy policies. The spawning of a new software and services sector.
Pass the P3P
'Intelligent Enterprise' article on Microsoft's P3P involvement.
Finally, Agreement on P3P
The World Wide Web Consortium reaches cross-industry agreement on an XML-based language for expressing Web site privacy policies.
Is P3P "the Devil"?
Paper from the University of Miami School of Law discussing P3P, its potential benefits and pitfalls.
Network Computing | Workshop | Security | P3P's Privacy Promises | Page 1 | July 23, 2001
This article talks about the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project, and talks about P3P's goal of building trust between users and Web site operators without requiring users to read and interpret the site's privacy policies.
Mailbag: P3P misses the privacy boat
Many of you wrote in to agree with me that the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences might be a far cry from an antidote to privacy woes.
P3P plan: How is it deployed, what is collected.
What exactly is collected, shared and acted upon isn't always evident to end users. This may lead to trust problems between site visitors and site owners, resulting in loss of business and even legal problems.
O'Reilly Network: Help! IE6 Is Blocking My Cookies [Oct. 04, 2002]
Lorrie Cranor, author of Web Privacy with P3P offers an introduction to P3P and an overview of what you need to do to prevent IE6 from blocking your cookies.
Can a labeling system protect your privacy?
"[P3P] has been both lauded as the answer to everyone's privacy worries and castigated as a Trojan horse that will divert public attention from real problems. The truth is, it's neither. It's merely a potentially nifty tool that might help ensure privacy in cyberspace -- if the government gets its act together. "
Web Group Debuts Privacy Platform Prototype
But some privacy groups say the technology is nothing more than hype. TechWeb article.
Analysis of P3P and US Patent 5,862,325
This Note is a response to a request from the W3C for Pennie and Edmonds' opinion as to whether implementations of the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences Project ("P3P") specification would infringe any claim of Intermind's U.S. Patent No. 5,862,325.
Privacy Policy
New Architect review of IBM's P3P Policy Editor. Pro's and Con's as well as an introduction to the practical use of the Editor to generate your policy.
Microsoft Buys Into Privacy
This article does not mention P3P directly. It is included here for historical reference. Microsoft began its internal P3P initiative with this acquisition.
Privacy as Computer Language
Early P3P Wired article talks about P3P and P3P issues from the WWW7 conference in Australia in March '98.
The Trouble with P3P
Early P3P article discusses issues with the P3P policy and its development.
Wired News: Patent May Threaten E-Privacy
The future of a key Web standard that would give consumers control over their online privacy hangs in the balance after news emerged that an entrepreneur will likely be awarded a set of patents on the technology.
The W3C, P3P and the Intermind Patent
XML.com article. Claims of patent infringement and the potential implications for implementors of the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences framework
Cover Pages: W3C Releases P3P 1.0 as a Recommendation.
Cover Pages article with links to specifications, websites and tools.
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