P3P: Big Backers, Slow Pickup
News The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) calls the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) "Pretty Poor Privacy. Perhaps that kind of scepticism is one of the reasons the protocol is catching on slowly.
[June 11, 2002, 10:02]
P3P Privacy Technology Slammed
News Privacy advocates Wednesday said an emerging technology aimed at enhancing privacy on the Internet does just the opposite. Known as the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project, or more commonly as P3P, the technology has been in development by the...
[June 22, 2000, 8:34]
P3P: A Green Light For Privacy On The Web? Part II
News Loosely based on PICS -- the controversial content rating system that flopped in 1998 -- P3P uses a similar idea to put information collection practices in a strict language that can be read by browsers.
[July 5, 2000, 13:54]
P3P: Green Light For Online Privacy?
News Starting next year, Web sites that violate user privacy are going to find themselves under an embarrassing cyber spotlight. The sites will be targeted by a new technology known as the Platform for Privacy Preferences, or P3P.
[July 5, 2000, 13:21]
Promise Of P3P Stalls As Backers Regroup
News 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.
[October 29, 2002, 13:20]
An Analysis Of P3P Deployment On Commercial, Government, And Children's Web Sites As Of May 2003
White Papers The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) provides a standard computer-readable format for privacy policies and a protocol that enables web browsers to read and process these policies automatically. The authors have developed software to query a...
[August 22, 2005, 0:00]
Web Privacy With P3P: Introduction To P3P
White Papers Internet users are becoming increasingly concerned about what personal information they may reveal when they go online and where that information might end up. It's common to hear about companies that derive revenue from personal information...
[October 24, 2007, 0:00]
MS Adds Privacy Standard To Windows And Explorer
News Microsoft said today that the next version of its Windows operating system will incorporate technologies based on the P3P specification, a privacy standard. The P3P standard, short for Platform for Privacy Preferences, was developed by the World...
[June 21, 2000, 15:42]
Web Consortium Issues Privacy Standard
News The World Wide Web Consortium has endorsed a new standard for privacy online. 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.
[April 16, 2002, 16:20]
Privacy Experts Rip IE Cookie Cutter
News Microsoft's plan to add privacy technology to its new browser is getting mixed reviews from privacy experts, who say the proposal is a good first step but still doesn't go far enough in protecting consumers from snooping companies.
[March 23, 2001, 8:44]
IE Flaw Puts Credit Card Info At Risk
News Microsoft has warned that versions of Internet Explorer can expose consumers' personal data contained within cookies. The vulnerability exists within IE 5.5 and 6.0, but earlier browser editions "may or may not be affected," according to a security...
[November 12, 2001, 9:42]
New Passport Privacy Tied To IE 6
News Microsoft will soon be offering better privacy and security for online consumers, but at a price: exclusive use -- for now -- of the company's forthcoming Internet Explorer 6.0 Web browser. Microsoft executives said on Wednesday that the company's...
[August 10, 2001, 8:58]
IE Privacy Flaw Still Causing Leaks
News 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, a noted security expert said on Tuesday. The software giant has heavily promoted the privacy features...
[January 16, 2002, 10:47]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Monday 7/8/2006 AOL's having a hard knock life. The once great metropolis is emptying as its users stream through the gates in its once impregnable walls to the anarchistic freedoms outside. Mindful of history, it's announced that it'll be knocking...
[August 11, 2006, 19:15]
Internet World: Digitalme Does Little For Privacy, Yet
News Entering the nascent consumer profiling market, network software maker Novell launched its Digitalme identity management service at Internet World in New York Tuesday. Novell's Digitalme purports to let users take control of their information, or...
[October 6, 1999, 16:18]
Patent Suit May Prompt Changes To HTML
News As anxiety builds throughout the Web over the patent threatening Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, the Web's leading standards group is considering modifying the medium's lingua franca itself, HTML, to address the same threat.
[September 22, 2003, 9:50]
Researchers Urge Use Of Tech To Protect Privacy
News Although modern technology created many of society's most pressing threats to privacy, a group of researchers is out to prove that it is also the greatest defender of civil liberties. For example, video surveillance could be made more palatable if...
[April 11, 2003, 8:49]
Zero-knowledge Adds Privacy Tool
News Security software maker Zero-Knowledge Systems on Tuesday introduced a Web-based tool that lets online businesses evaluate their digital privacy policies. The Montreal-based company's P3P Analyzer, a free beta service, lets companies test whether...
[March 6, 2002, 9:00]
W3C Investigates Threat To HTML
News With a patent threat looming over the Web's de facto standard browser, the Worldwide Web Consortium has launched a strategy group to evaluate the implications for the Web's standard markup language. As previously reported, the W3C conceived the...
[September 25, 2003, 13:00]
Doubt Cast Over Web Standard's Ownership
News A company claims that a popular Web technology infringes on a patent it owns. But the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) argues that the technology was developed by a broad range of the Web community. The technology in question, Resource Description...
[January 4, 2002, 9:38]
