P3P: Making Privacy Policies More Useful

  • Authors:
  • Lorrie Faith Cranor

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Labs-Research

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

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.