Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 290333 contains the following summary: This article describes the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) project. P3P is a combined protocol and architecture designed to inform Web users of ...

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Trading security for privacy

Nearly everyone I know (myself included) believes that privacy on the Internet is important. I've noticed, however, that until recently, I unconsciously classified "anonymity" as a kind of privacy and so considered it an automatic right of...

If you configured Web sites using the Privacy tab of Internet Options, you may wish to prevent users from...

The current economic recession has hit some high-tech firms hard. Some companies in particular seem to have taken hard blows ... to their ethical standards...

The noose around Microsoft Passport tightened a bit more this week when a privacy advocacy group asked the attorneys general of all 50 U.S. states to investigate whether the service exposes consumers to fraud, junk email and "identity theft." In a...

Zero-Knowledge Systems introduced a new suite of security tools under its Freedom software series. The Freedom Security and Privacy Suite includes Freedom Personal Firewall 3.1, Freedom Parental Control 3.1, and Freedom Privacy Protection 3.1...

Regardless of your feelings about Microsoft, it was a tough year for what I think of as the integrity of the company's products. Integrity encompasses several items, including basic security, privacy, and reliability, but also a general feeling of...

A set of consumer and privacy groups railed against the US government this week for not acting to investigate or block the sale of Windows XP, which Microsoft will release tomorrow. Microsoft competitors are backing some of the groups, which have...