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Online privacy isn't the issue it once was, if indeed people really ever cared about it. Oh sure, everyone's in favor of privacy in the same way that they're in favor of Mom and apple pie, but exactly how software should preserve privacy is a more controversial issue. Were they aware of the trade-offs involved, I'm not so sure how committed people would be. The main industry initiative facilitating user privacy is the W3C initiative, Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P). P3P provides a way for site authors to make their privacy policies

The idea behind the system is that sites create P3P files describing their privacy policies, which can easily be read by browser software. Visitors set their own privacy preferences on their browsers, and if those preferences and the policies of visited sites match up, everybody is happy and the system stays in the background. If they don't match, the browser can point this out and ask the user what to do. It can also prevent actions that would otherwise happen automatically, for example it can block cookies if the user's preferences don't match the

"P3P" is actually the name for a group of technologies that work together to create a framework to allow users to exercise preferences over the privacy practices of web sites. Applications using P3P will keep users informed about web sites' privacy practices, and allow them to dictate the extent to which their personal information is revealed to the site. Technically, P3P consists of an XML vocabulary, a strongly defined set of base data types, and a rule-based language that acts on a set of rules used to express a user's preferences. Web sites

Microsoft plans to incorporate the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)-developed Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) specification into its Internet Explorer 6 and Windows XP operating system, both available in fall 2001. P3P lets Internet surfers select levels of privacy protection in dealing with Web sites, and in particular with the sites' use of cookie files. But many analysts question whether P3P is sufficient to protect users' privacy and worry about possible Microsoft domination of Web privacy. The privacy tools in Internet Explorer 6 will let