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.
Index Terms:
privacy, privacy policy, P3P, XML
Citation:
Lorrie Faith Cranor, "P3P: Making Privacy Policies More Useful," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 50-55, Nov.-Dec. 2003, doi:10.1109/MSECP.2003.1253568 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||