- From: Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:43:20 -0500
- To: public-privacy@w3.org
Internet Explorer is configured by default to reject cookies unless a certain P3P policy is present. Google, Facebook, et al. say "This is not a P3P policy". According to Lorrie Cranor, this practice is used by around 1/3 of websites, including msn.com and live.com. " "Microsoft uses a 'self-declaration' protocol (known as 'P3P') dating from 2002 under which Microsoft asks websites to represent their privacy practices in machine-readable form," Google Senior VP of Communications and Policy Rachel Whetstone says in a statement e-mailed to Ars. "It is well known—including by Microsoft—that it is impractical to comply with Microsoft’s request while providing modern web functionality." " <http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/google-tricks-internet-explorer-into-accepting-tracking-cookies-microsoft-claims.ars>
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