This Note is a response to a request from the W3C for Pennie and Edmonds' opinion as to whether implementations of the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences Project ("P3P") specification would infringe any claim of Intermind's U.S. Patent No. 5, 862,...

"[P3P] has been both lauded as the answer to everyone's privacy worries and castigated as a Trojan horse that will divert public attention from real problems. The truth is, it's neither. It's merely a potentially nifty tool that might help ensure priv...

CNN.com article: Some companies are gradually implementing the proposed Platform for Privacy Preferences[...] But it remains unclear whether P3P will succeed as a standard.

Cover Pages article with links to specifications, websites and tools.

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The World Wide Web Consortium reaches cross-industry agreement on an XML-based language for expressing Web site privacy policies.

New privacy-enhancing controls in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 can be rendered useless by a long-known security flaw in Windows Media Player.

Paper from the University of Miami School of Law discussing P3P, its potential benefits and pitfalls.

Many of you wrote in to agree with me that the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences might be a far cry from an antidote to privacy woes.

This article does not mention P3P directly. It is included here for historical reference. Microsoft began its internal P3P initiative with this acquisition.