- From: Sally Khudairi <khudairi@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 12:23:13 -0400
- To: W3C News Service <w3c-news@w3.org>
W3C Publishes First Public
Working Draft of P3P 1.0
Testimonials http://www.w3.org/Press/1998/P3P-test.html
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AOL · AT&T · CDT · The DMA · Engagetech · Hogan & Harston ·IBM ·
ICC · Intermind · Matchlogic · Microsoft · Narrowline · Ontario
Information and Privacy Commissioner · Open Sesame · Somm&Partner
AG · TRUSTe · United States Vice President
"AOL is pleased to have been involved from its inception in
the development of the Platform for Privacy Preferences
(P3P). It is through creative technological solutions like P3P
that consumers will develop the confidence and trust
necessary to benefit from robust, electronic commerce and for
the Internet online medium to grow globally. We look forward
to P3P's ubiquitous implementation."
-- George Vradenburg, Senior Vice President and
General Counsel, America Online Inc.
"P3P has been designed to provide a convenient way for
Internet users to control the use of their personal information.
AT&T is proud to have contributed to this important
technology tool that will empower users to make choices
about their online experiences. We hope P3P can go a long
way towards addressing the many concerns Internet users
have about privacy."
-- Dr. Lorrie Faith Cranor, Senior Technical Staff Member,
AT&T Labs-Research.
"Coupled with strong privacy policies and practices, P3P
stands to become a robust and effective tool for privacy
protection on the Internet. Properly implemented it will help
individuals protect their privacy by providing them with control
over their personal information during interactions on the
World Wide Web. Its emphasis on individual control respects
the complexities of implementing policy in a decentralized
network like the Internet. Its reliance on a technical platform
and a broad, flexible vocabulary will allow it to address
individuals' privacy concerns as they move across the Web.
Shaping the infrastructure of the Web to support individual
control over personal information is an important step in the
process or protecting privacy in this emerging environment.
The task ahead is to ensure that P3P implementations meet
the public's demand for real, effective privacy protection."
--Deirdre Mulligan, Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy
and Technology
"Consumers are responding to e-commerce: interactive sales
approached $2 billion in 1997. That is why The DMA is
invested in the P3P process. By delivering a privacy
protection program that meets the needs of both consumers
and marketers, we will be assuring that e-commerce will thrive
as the next great direct marketing medium. Marketers want
consumers to feel comfortable in the online marketplace."
-- Patricia Faley, Vice President, Consumer Affairs, The
DMA.
"Internet privacy is of the utmost concern to consumers. The
P3P goes a long way in demonstrating that Engage
Technologies and other industry leaders are taking this
concern very seriously. We are honored to have contributed
to such instrumental technology, and to the dramatic
improvements it will bring to the way information is exchanged
over the Web."
-- Dan Jaye, CTO, Engage Technologies, Inc.
"We need the tools to protect our privacy online and P3P is
essential to empower all of us to make informed choices on
the basis of our privacy preferences as we navigate the Web."
-- Christine Varney, Attorney, Internet Practice, Hogan
and Hartson
"Privacy and the appropriate use of personal information is an
important part of enabling e-business on the Web. IBM is
delighted to see P3P becoming available to help consumers
have more confidence that they can safely disclose
information about themselves while controlling its use."
-- John Patrick, Vice President - Internet Technology,
IBM Corporation.
"As creators and providers of original content, the Internet
Content Coalition is delighted to see P3P becoming
available."
--Christopher Barr and Dan Farber, co-chairs, Internet
Content Coalition
"P3P is absolutely central to the intelligent information
interchange services Intermind is pioneering. You can't let
machines automatically exchange sensitive data without
giving users control over that process. P3P is that control
mechanism, and we expect it to be the key to establishing a
new climate of trust for all types of Internet transactions."
--Drummond Reed, Co-Founder, Intermind Corp.
"People using the Internet will need to rely on a tool to help
them control how and when their personal information is
exchanged. P3P is a valuable tool to help them control how
they exchange information online. When a person uses the
Internet they are often asked to provide information to
web-sites for a number of purposes. We simply defined what
those purposes are and how a person can respond to those
requests for their information. This is a technological solution
to the complex privacy issues facing the Internet today. We
expect that trust and confidence on the Internet will increase
dramatically as a result of the implementation of this
standard."
-- Dr. Steven Lucas, CIO, MatchLogic.
"For the Internet to achieve its full potential, people must know
that their personal information is secure and private. Unless
consumers and businesses have confidence in the privacy
and security on the Web, the movement toward electronic
commerce and personalization of online services will be
dramatically slowed. This P3P standard represents a major
step forward in online security and privacy, which will help
clear the way for continued growth and development of the
Internet. Microsoft is proud to have worked with a broad
coalition of companies and organizations to develop this P3P
standard, and we will continue to work with the W3C on
industry-wide efforts to advance security and privacy on the
Web."
-- Bob Herbold, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft.
"The best relationships are those which are build out of trust.
Narrowline was proud to participate in this project where,
together with leading technology companies, industry
organizations and advocacy groups, the Internet industry
proved it could come together to build socially aware and
smart technology standards for the digital era. P3P is an
important element in building robust technology tools to
empower users and businesses to have informed and honest
relationships. This is a critical step forward in fulfilling the
promise of electronic commerce and communication not only
in the US but globally."
-- Tara Lemmey, Founder and Chairman, Narrowline
As a participant in the development of the World Wide Web
Consortium's Privacy Preferences Project (P3P), the Ontario
Information and Privacy Commissioner supports the
responsible use of the P3P standard for privacy protection. It
is very encouraging to see activities like P3P make privacy
become a part of every day life. The global nature of
E-commerce and information flow means there must be global
mechanisms to allow individuals to maintain control over their
information. Currently, legislation is uneven in its ability to
provide this protection. Solutions like P3P, developed through
consensus, mean that privacy on the Net can be improved
right now.
-- Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D., Commissioner, Ontario
Information and Privacy Commissioner
"We at Open Sesame have demonstrated our commitment to
user privacy through our support of P3P, our strong privacy
policy, and the unique opt out features of our personalization
software. We intend to fully support the P3P standard
throughout the Open Sesame personalization software
product line."
-- Alper Caglayan, President, Open Sesame
"As the first European company to establish sales enhancing
Virtual Communities on the Net, Somm & Partner believes that
P3P is critical to addressing essential requirements for
success on the Net: trust, confidence, privacy, and commerce.
Somm & Partner supports P3P as a mechanism for
addressing commerce and privacy concerns globally."
-- Felix Somm, President & CEO, Somm & Partner AG
"P3P is an important step in establishing a privacy dialog
between Web sites and their visitors. It provides a standard
for disclosing online privacy practices, and gives users the
ability to make informed decisions about the use of their
personal information. Coupled with third party assurance, P3P
will accelerate the growth of online commerce by helping to
alleviate consumers' biggest online concern: lack of privacy.
TRUSTe looks forward to working with technology developers
to implement assurance mechanisms like P3P that will further
consumer trust."
-- Jonathan Stark, Technical Director, TRUSTe.
"I welcome this important new tool for privacy protection. It will
empower individuals to maintain control over their personal
information while using the World Wide Web."
-- Al Gore, Vice President, United States States of
America.
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