Platform for Privacy Preferences Project
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The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) is an obsolete protocol allowing websites to declare their intended use of information they collect about web browser users. Designed to give users more control of their personal information when browsing, P3P was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and officially recommended on April 16, 2002. Development ceased shortly thereafter and there have been very few implementations of P3P. Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge Legacy were the only major browsers to support P3P. Microsoft has ended support from Windows 10 onwards. Interne
Key facts
- Technology standard.title
- P3P
- Technology standard.long_name
- Platform for Privacy Preferences
- Technology standard.native_name
- Platform for Privacy Preferences
- Technology standard.native_name_lang
- en
- Technology standard.status
- Retired
- Technology standard.version
- 1.1
- Technology standard.committee
- P3P Specification Working Group
- Technology standard.abbreviation
- P3P
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- W3C Recommendation
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- standards body
- World Wide Web Consortium
- work available at URL
- www.w3.org/TR/P3P11
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Purpose
- User agent support
- Benefits
- Criticisms
- Alternatives
- See also
- References
- External links
The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) is an obsolete protocol allowing websites to declare their intended use of information they collect about web browser users. Designed to give users more control of their personal information when browsing, P3P was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and officially recommended on April 16, 2002. Development ceased shortly thereafter and there have been very few implementations of P3P. Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge Legacy were the only major browsers to support P3P. Microsoft has ended support from Windows 10 onwards. Internet Explorer and Edge [Legacy] on Windows 10 no longer support P3P as of 2016. W3C officially obsoleted P3P on 2018-08-30. The president of TRUSTe has stated that P3P has not been implemented widely due to the difficulty and lack of value.
==Purpose==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Platform for Privacy Preferences Project” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.