Six months after its recommendation as an Internet standard, a major privacy initiative is entering an awkward adolescence as software heavyweights adopt it and individual Web sites leave it to languish.

Andy Oram article discussing P3P as a social protocol, as well as his views of the motivations behind the protocol.

Article by Richard M. Smith point out an Internet Explorer potential privacy design flaw.

Early P3P article discusses issues with the P3P policy and its development.

XML.com article. Claims of patent infringement and the potential implications for implementors of the W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences framework

When Microsoft introduced version 6 of its Internet Explorer browser last year, many webmasters were puzzled to find that their cookies were being blocked in increasing numbers. [Cnet News]

The future of a key Web standard that would give consumers control over their online privacy hangs in the balance after news emerged that an entrepreneur will likely be awarded a set of patents on the technology.