Privacy Statement
For my work I came across a new Internet standard: the Platform for Privacy Preferences, or P3P. This allows a website to inform its customers of its privacy policy: how does the website deal with the personal data of its users.
An important aspect of the standard is that the format is both human- and machine-readable. Internet Explorer 6.0 knows how to read this information for example (see the screenshot below). You can tell Internet Explorer what your preferences are, for example that you never want to give your e-mail address to sites that sell e-mail addresses to third parties. Your browser will then warn you if you enter such a website.
I've created a policy for Guus Bosman.nl, to see how it works. My privacy policy is pretty simple: I don't sell, share or give away information on my visitors to other people. However, the website uses "cookies", to keep track of logged in users and to remember your username. <
All this you can read in my Privacy Statement.
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Privacy statement
funny but n og implemented in my browser :(
(firebird)
Privacy statement
Yes, I know -- Firebird is my browser too and I've been trying to find a P3P plugin.
It looks like they are working on it. See for example this article to see how you can build Firebird yourself with the 'P3P extension' enabled. I don't think it's as complete as the Internet Explorer implementation at this moment.
Privacy statement
how works in other humble browsers like opera safari etc.? may be a link to something?
Privacy statement
Opera.com:
"P3P is among the specifications we are considering for support in the future. There have been some issues with how well P3P will protect privacy, and for that reason we have decided to wait until these are resolved."