Protocols will not fix privacy problems

Andy Oram comments on the Platform for Privacy Preferences, or P3P. It doesn’t embody the basic presumtion of Internet security: don’t trust whomever is sending the packets. And it doesn’t address the basic problem: a small number of organizations have tremendous power over large collections of data.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries and posted on April 8, 2000 at 12:00 am and filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the Atom feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.