De Financial Times heeft vandaag een artikel (betaalde toegang) hoe internetbrowsers automatisch de toegang tot privacyonvriendelijke websites kunnen, en volgens een advocaat ook zullen, blokkeren:

"Website operators could face legal liability because of software that enables browsers to check for compliance with an emerging US internet privacy protocol, law firm Morrison & Foerster has warned.

Net surfers are increasingly using the software, known as P3P, which tells the user whether a site meets specified privacy criteria - such as what the site does with personal information.

The most recent version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer comes with the feature and P3P tools can be easily downloaded from

the internet. If a site's policy does not meet the user's settings, the program can block access."

Techweb op 20 september 2002 over P3P:

"IBM, Microsoft, and AT&T Research are developing P3P generators for sites. Essentially, they're templates so sites can customize their privacy policy for P3P readers.

Sites will adopt P3P because they want consumers to have a smooth browsing experience, said Danny Weitzner, director of the World Wide Web Consortium's technology and society activities. And once Microsoft and Netscape adopt P3P for their browsers, Internet users will expect it, he said.

Microsoft expects to be able to generate a sample privacy policy for sites with its Privacy Generator, said Marc Berejka, a senior attorney at Microsoft, Redmond, Wash. Over the past 18 months, 20,000 commercial sites have used the product, which should be ready at year-end and be compatible with P3P."

Privacy Generator-Voorstellen van IBM, Microsoft ("currently unavailable due to technical maintenance"), AT&T en, wat algemener, die van de W3C.