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Web Privacy with P3P

By Lorrie Faith Cranor
September 2002
Pages: 344
ISBN 10: 0-596-00371-4 | ISBN 13: 9780596003715

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Web Privacy with P3P explains the P3P protocol and shows web site developers how to configure their sites for P3P compliance. Full of examples and case studies, the book delivers practical advice and insider tips. Software developers, privacy consultants, corporate decision-makers, lawyers, public policy-makers, and any individual interested in online privacy issues will find this book a necessary reference.
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Web site developers balance their need to collect information about users with their obligation to show respect for their users' privacy. The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project, or P3P, has emerged as a technology that may satisfy the wishes of both parties. Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), P3P gives users more control over the amount of information they disclose about themselves as they browse the Web, and allows web sites to declare to browsers what sort of information they will request of users. The number of web developers using P3P continues to grow. P3P support is now built into the newest browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and Mozilla. Web Privacy with P3P explains the P3P protocol and shows web site developers how to configure their sites for P3P compliance. Author Lorrie Faith Cranor, chair of the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) Specification Working Group at the W3C and co-author of the P3P1.0 specification, explains the inner workings of the P3P protocol while maintaining a hands-on implementation approach. Following a foreword by Stanford Law professor Lawrence Lessig, the book begins with an introduction to P3P and an overview of online privacy concerns and the laws governing online privacy. Cranor discusses existing privacy technology, such as encryption tools, filters and identity management tools. Next, the book shows you how to P3P-enable your own site. Among the many topics covered are:

P3P deployment steps
P3P policy syntax
Creating P3P policies
Creating and referencing policy reference files
Data schemas

Full of examples and case studies, Web Privacy with P3P delivers practical advice and insider tips. Software developers, privacy consultants, corporate decision-makers, lawyers, public policy-makers, and any individual interested in online privacy issues will find this book a necessary reference.

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First Edition: September 2002
ISBN: 0-596-00371-4
Pages: 344

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"The author, who is the chair of the P3P Working Group at the W3C, clearly knows her stuff. More importantly, she can convey her knowledge in a way that is clearly understandable to non-techies...P3P is growing in popularity and provides a good way for both Web site producers to inform users of their privacy policies and users to choose if the site conforms to his/her own privacy preferences. For anyone collecting user statistics from their web site, P3P makes good sense. Read this book to find out all you need to know about it."
--Deborah Lynne Wiley, "Online," June 2003

"If you are stuck with the hard task of coding your site for P3P, get a copy of Lorrie Cranor's book, 'Web Privacy with P3P,' published by O'Reilly & Associates Inc., www.oreilly.com. This book will help you understand and code P3P. I recommend it highly."--Robert Gellman, "Government Computer News," March 10, 2003

" A must if you are working with P3P...Lorrie Cranor has provided a detailed history and did not skimp at all on giving developers plenty of information to work with. She created the definitive guide to P3P, which makes implementing good privacy practices on web sites easier and provides some good reading about internet privacy."
--Roy C. Hoobler, Builder.com, Dec 13, 2002

"Technologists who enjoyed 'The Privacy Payoff' will undoubtedly be even more engaged by Dr. Lorrie Cranor's book 'Web Privacy with P3P'...a clear, concise description of the current state of privacy on the Internet and then discusses the technological tools that help individuals gain more control over their personal information."
--Ari Schwartz, Federal Computer Week, Nov 30, 2002

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