DeeKnow’s Grotto

Sites Wary of Adopting P3P according to an CNN article linked off a SlashDot post yesterday. P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) is a W3C initiative to encourage site owners to publish a machine-parseable file which details what information a site holds about a visitor and what they use it for.

The idea is that the users specifies on their local machine what information they're prepared to divulge, these preferences are loaded by the browser and the browser will warn the user if a P3P file on a site they're visiting conflicts in any way.  P3P has plenty of critics, browsers support is poor (some in IE6) and few sites are publishing the P3P files.  Plus its open to abuse as site owners won't specify everything they collect if they think this will mean the browser blocks it through user-preference.

12:01:04 PM  

Building Bridges: Toward Mutual Understanding Among Web-Related Professions is the subject of a thesis published by John Garrett.  I participated in an online survey last year, the collated responses to which were used in the thesis. 

"The advent of the Web brought together professions that were in upheaval, forcing them to find ways to work with each other to overcome their own hurdles and the hurdle of working together. History's partitioning of knowledge into disciplines planted the seeds of these schisms among professions."

Have saved a copy of the PDF file (3.8MB) which was taken from his website.  I have printed a copy if you want a loan.

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