- From: Lorrie Cranor <lorrie@research.att.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:14:25 -0400
- To: public-p3p-spec@w3.org
A new study was published today by Joseph Turow at the University of Pennsylvania called "Americans & Online Privacy: The system is Borken." You can find a WSJ article and synopsis at http://cryptome.org/dark-privacy.htm -- along with a link to the full 36-page study. This study basically finds that people don't understand privacy policies and don't have a good conceptual understanding of how their information flows online. It also finds that when typical web site data practices are described to people, they generally don't like them. The author recommends (on page 35) three proposals for US legislation including legislation to require websites to use P3P. He discusses P3P earlier on page 10, noting that adoption rates are still low. He also mentions Privacy Bird (which he describes as "ingenious" -- and no, I didn't lobby him to write that -- I'm not sure I've ever talked to him, let alone about Privacy Bird.) Lorrie
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