On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Benjamin Scott wrote: > Am I the only one who thinks P3P is a joke? I mean, you're asking a site > you don't trust if you should trust them to protect your privacy. (If you > trusted them, you would not have to ask them about their privacy policy.) > > This is kind of like asking the guy on the street corner, "So, this watch > is not stolen, right?"
While I agree with you on the overall point, I think it's important that we look at this for what it is. It's not an end all be all solution to privacy concerns. There isn't such a thing. This is an exploratory step, just like everything else. Without someone taking a step there's never progress. Everything has its issues and pitfalls - look at SSL certs. So, while yes, I agree that there are certainly problems with trusting the word of the person you're buying from, this is more an extension to the current system of 'Let me click on your privacy policy and read it'. This moves the privacy policy into a machine readable format that rules can hopefully later be built on. Without the underlying structure no one's going to build something into a browser. Ben -- Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
