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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: 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]
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]
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]
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]
Privacy groups turn up heat on Windows XP, Passport
News A group of privacy organisations on Wednesday renewed their attacks on Microsoft's Passport authentication service and Windows XP, asking the Federal Trade Commission to mandate changes in Microsoft's new operating system.
[August 16, 2001, 8:50]
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]
Additional details on data accuracy
Talkback Great question Jonathan, There's lot of good data about the general innacuracy of page-tag based web analytics. A great primer can be found here http://www.advanced-web-metrics.com/docs/accuracy-whitepaper.pdf.
[November 19, 2009, 8:17]
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]
Where the lobbying power lies
News When Jack Valenti was at the helm of the Motion Picture Association of America, his $1.5m annual salary easily topped that of Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer. Ed Black, the president of the Computer and Communications Industry Association...
[March 29, 2006, 18:05]
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]
Windows XP: Internet and networking review
Reviews Windows XP does more to integrate the Internet into its everyday operation and make networking simpler than any previous version of Windows. Security is improved thanks to the bundled firewall and Java-style sandbox technology, while wizards make...
[October 30, 2001, 15:24]
