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Will phpweblog be P3P Complient?
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By John Johnson (12.33.8.---) on Friday June 15 2001 @ 10:48AM EDT [ Development ] See this Clip from CNET Below
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Internet Explorer 6, scheduled to be released in August, will be the first browser to support a new privacy standard called Platform Privacy Preferences, or P3P.
With P3P, Web surfers can configure their browsers to automatically determine whether a Web site collects personally identifiable information, uses that information to create user profiles, or allows visitors to opt out of the data-collection.
Ad networks also must post privacy policies that can be read by the browser. Sites and ads that are not compliant with the standards being included in IE 6 may not be able to place cookies on PC users' hard drives.
"In order for ad networks to continue to set cookies on people's computers, they'll have to create a P3P privacy policy--many haven't done that yet," said Richard Smith, chief technology officer at the Privacy Foundation, a Denver-based watchdog group and research foundation. Smith said that by his count about 50 to 100 marketers and ad networks set third-party cookies, many of which could be blocked by users of IE 6.
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FP writes on Friday June 15 2001 @ 12:51PM EDT: [ reply | parent ]
Peronally, I would like to have a P3P-compliant machine-readable privacy policy. I think a lot of people haven't implemented them because they can't find any guidlines on how to write them!!!
All I've been able to find, personally, are stories about it, but no technical details.
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Anonymous writes on Saturday June 16 2001 @ 10:42AM EDT: [ reply | parent ]
Micro$oft implementing a PRIVACY technology?
ROTFL!!!
Just take a look at XP (eXerimental Prototype) registration procedures and their latest trick, Smartlinks.
If Microsoft says it promotes privacy, it probably keeps the data from the advertisers and sends it on to Bill.
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FP writes on Sunday June 17 2001 @ 10:21PM EDT: [ reply | parent ]
Actually, P3P is a standard proposed by W3, not Microsoft. Here is the relevant page (I found it *way* after posting my previous comment):
http://www.w3.org/P3P/
After reading through the specs, it seems like it might actually be useful. It doesn't actually provide security. It's more like ISO9000 certifications in the manufacturing industry. It tells readers what your policy is, and then gives them information on how to contact you if there's a problem. IE6 will simply use an XML file that the webmaster provides to read that policy and determine if the site is "safe" or not. You could EASILY cheat the policy, but security isn't the point.
Now if we could just get MS to adopt W3's HTML standards...
FP
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Jochen Bünnagel writes on Saturday June 23 2001 @ 03:28PM EDT: [ reply | parent ]
I installed a P3P-Statement on my site and it passes the w3c-p3p-validator with flying colors.
ie6 says: No Policy...
'nuff said...
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Jochen Bünnagel writes on Saturday June 23 2001 @ 03:30PM EDT: [ reply | parent ]
PS: I created it using IBMs P3P-Policy-Editor (free). Find it at: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/p3peditor
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