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• Computers: Security: Internet: Privacy: News and Media  (12)

• Turning up the heat on Web privacy - When Microsoft introduced version 6 of its Internet Explorer browser last year, many webmasters were puzzled to find that their cookies were being blocked in increasing numbers. [Cnet News] (December 23, 2002)
• Promise of P3P stalls as backers regroup - 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)
• O'Reilly Network: Help! IE6 Is Blocking My Cookies [Oct. 04, 2002] - Lorrie Cranor, author of Web Privacy with P3P offers an introduction to P3P and an overview of what you need to do to prevent IE6 from blocking your cookies. (October 4, 2002)
• P3P plan: How is it deployed, what is collected. - What exactly is collected, shared and acted upon isn't always evident to end users. This may lead to trust problems between site visitors and site owners, resulting in loss of business and even legal problems. (September 30, 2002)
• News: Does P3P equal privacy? - COMMENTARY--Online privacy isn't the issue it once was, if indeed people really ever cared about it. (May 15, 2002)
• Mailbag: P3P misses the privacy boat - Many of you wrote in to agree with me that the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences might be a far cry from an antidote to privacy woes. (May 8, 2002)
• Cover Pages: W3C Releases P3P 1.0 as a Recommendation. - Cover Pages article with links to specifications, websites and tools. (April 17, 2002)
• Finally, Agreement on P3P - The World Wide Web Consortium reaches cross-industry agreement on an XML-based language for expressing Web site privacy policies. (April 16, 2002)
• SuperCookies bypass P3P and cookie controls - Article by Richard M. Smith point out an Internet Explorer potential privacy design flaw. (January 16, 2002)
• IE privacy flaw still causing leaks - 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. (January 15, 2002)
• Companies move slowly on P3P adoption - CNN.com article: Some companies are gradually implementing the proposed Platform for Privacy Preferences[...] But it remains unclear whether P3P will succeed as a standard. (October 30, 2001)
• P3P: Protector Of Consumers' Online Privacy - An overview of the W3C's new P3P protocol for implementing consumer privacy preferences. Includes discussion on Microsoft, I.E. 6 and online privacy for consumers. (August 20, 2001)
• Privacy Tools and Services Debut - A look at the emerging technologies and management of corporate privacy policies. The spawning of a new software and services sector. (August 20, 2001)
• Privacy Policy - New Architect review of IBM's P3P Policy Editor. Pro's and Con's as well as an introduction to the practical use of the Editor to generate your policy. (August 1, 2001)
• Network Computing | Workshop | Security | P3P's Privacy Promises | Page 1 | July 23, 2001 - This article talks about the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project, and talks about P3P's goal of building trust between users and Web site operators without requiring users to read and interpret the site's privacy policies. (July 23, 2001)
• Pass the P3P - 'Intelligent Enterprise' article on Microsoft's P3P involvement. (July 23, 2001)
• Adam Smith Leads P3P Privacy Resolution - Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) and 4 New Democrat colleagues in the House - introduce a resolution that recognizes the importance of the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) specification as a key tool for consumers who want to protect their privacy on the Internet. In an effort to promote widespread adoption of the technology, the resolution also urges all government and commercial web sites operators to make their sites P3P compliant. (June 7, 2001)
• Can a labeling system protect your privacy? - "[P3P] has been both lauded as the answer to everyone's privacy worries and castigated as a Trojan horse that will divert public attention from real problems. The truth is, it's neither. It's merely a potentially nifty tool that might help ensure privacy in cyberspace -- if the government gets its act together. " (July 11, 2000)
• E-Commerce News: White House, Industry Giants Back Net Privacy Project - Everything you need to know about doing business on the Internet. Information for C-Level executives and small-to-mid-sized business managers. (June 27, 2000)
• P3P privacy technology slammed - ZDNet News Article: Consumer groups say P3P technology allows companies to collect more consumer information, not less. (June 21, 2000)
• Pretty Poor Privacy: An Assessment of P3P and Internet Privacy - A critical article published by Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Junkbusters. (June, 2000)
• Promises, Promises, Promises-A Closer Look at P3P - Andy Oram article discussing P3P as a social protocol, as well as his views of the motivations behind the protocol. (April 14, 2000)
• The W3C, P3P and the Intermind Patent - XML.com article. Claims of patent infringement and the potential implications for implementors of the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences framework (November 3, 1999)
• Analysis of P3P and US Patent 5,862,325 - This Note is a response to a request from the W3C for Pennie and Edmonds' opinion as to whether implementations of the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences Project ("P3P") specification would infringe any claim of Intermind's U.S. Patent No. 5,862,325. (October 27, 1999)
• Wired News: Patent May Threaten E-Privacy - The future of a key Web standard that would give consumers control over their online privacy hangs in the balance after news emerged that an entrepreneur will likely be awarded a set of patents on the technology. (November 11, 1998)
• The Trouble with P3P - Early P3P article discusses issues with the P3P policy and its development. (June 25, 1998)
• Is P3P "the Devil"? - Paper from the University of Miami School of Law discussing P3P, its potential benefits and pitfalls. (June 2, 1998)
• Privacy as Computer Language - Early P3P Wired article talks about P3P and P3P issues from the WWW7 conference in Australia in March '98. (May 21, 1998)
• Microsoft Buys Into Privacy - This article does not mention P3P directly. It is included here for historical reference. Microsoft began its internal P3P initiative with this acquisition. (April 9, 1998)

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