Chapter 37. Managing Privacy with P3P

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Have you ever been hesitant to provide personal information to a Web site because you don't know how it will be used? At one time or another, most Web users have withheld information for fear of getting bombarded with junk mail or becoming the target of some sort of online scam. Until recently, the privacy policies of most Web sites have been nonexistent, or minimal at best. With those few sites that have thorough privacy statements, there is no way for you to know that they are keeping their promises.

The W3C's P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences Project) initiative ...

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