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P3P: Making Privacy Policies More Useful

Published: 01 November 2003 Publication History

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This article provides an introduction to the World Wide Web Consortium's Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) specification. P3P provides a standard way for Web sites to convey their privacy policies in a computer-readable format. The article describes the motivations behind P3P and how it works. In addition, it includes an overview of P3P-related software, discusses P3P adoption, and describes future P3P standardization efforts. Finally, the article discusses critics' views of P3P and discusses the standards' potential impacts.

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cover image IEEE Security and Privacy
IEEE Security and Privacy  Volume 1, Issue 6
November 2003
93 pages

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IEEE Educational Activities Department

United States

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Published: 01 November 2003

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  1. P3P
  2. XML
  3. privacy
  4. privacy policy

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