XML Unleashed

The Privacy Wizard

If the details of the P3P vocabulary have you feeling a little lightheaded, you'll be glad to know that you don't have to hand-code privacy policies. Microsoft's LinkExchange service, which is part of the Microsoft Network, offers an online tool called Privacy Wizard that automates the task of creating a P3P privacy policy. The Privacy Wizard presents you with a series of questions about the privacy aspects of your site. After you answer the questions, Privacy Wizard will generate both a human-readable policy statement Web page and an XML document that's encoded using P3P's harmonized vocabulary.

Before using the Privacy Wizard, you should ask yourself a few questions related to your site's approach to privacy:

• Do you tell ...