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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: IE6: P3P. Is that part of cookie management planned/in Konqueror ?
From:       Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz () uni-bielefeld ! de>
Date:       2001-08-06 11:29:59
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On Saturday 04 August 2001 02:18, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as this article reports:
> http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/08/03/010803hnmsgold.x
>ml
>
Disclaimer: Haven't read that. But this:
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/2721/1.html (German, sorry)
- -and-
http://www.epic.org/reports/prettypoorprivacy.html

> IE6 has a cookie management based on the standards by the W3C which
> they call P3P, a privacy policy distributed by servers using cookies
> sending the privacy policy match inside the cookie as XML. I know we
> have cookie managment but I didn't know that such stuff exists. How
> about it ?
<snip>

DON'T!

That is no cookie-management tool, but a tool to actually manage all 
privacy-releated things. Worst bit is that this stuff makes it possible 
to shove around personal data in defined data formats (meaning you go 
to a shop and IE will transmit your address to the shop without you 
having to enter it somewhere). Yes, you can set which shop gets which 
information, but why make it yet again easier for profilers?

Marc

- -- 
The intensity and complexity of life, attendant upon advancing 
civilization, have rendered necessary some retreat from the world, and 
man, under the refining influence of culture, has become more sensitive 
to publicity, so that solitude and privacy have become more essential 
to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through 
invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress, 
far greater than could be inflicted by mere bodily injury.
S.D. Warren/L.D. Brandeis: The Right to Privacy, Harvard Law Review 
vol.IV, no.5 (1890)
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