'Intelligent Enterprise' article on Microsoft's P3P involvement.

An overview of the W3C's new P3P protocol for implementing consumer privacy preferences. Includes discussion on Microsoft, I.E. 6 and online privacy for consumers.

ZDNet News Article: Consumer groups say P3P technology allows companies to collect more consumer information, not less.

What exactly is collected, shared and acted upon isn't always evident to end users. This may lead to trust problems between site visitors and site owners, resulting in loss of business and even legal problems.

Lorrie Cranor, author of Web Privacy with P3P offers an introduction to P3P and an overview of what you need to do to prevent IE6 from blocking your cookies.

COMMENTARY--Online privacy isn't the issue it once was, if indeed people really ever cared about it.

This article talks about the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project, and talks about P3P's goal of building trust between users and Web site operators without requiring users to read and interpret the site's privacy policies.

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 It is included here for historical reference.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

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.

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