P3P Privacy Statement
Updated: May 16, 2007
P3P Privacy Statement
The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is a machine-readable
privacy statement supported by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). P3P-enabled sites make privacy statements available in a
standard, machine-readable format that P3P-enabled browsers can access.
Web sites implement P3P on their servers by translating their human-readable privacy policies into an Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema that user agents can read. Users can then set preferences to automatically be informed of site practices without reading privacy policies for every site they visit.
Vendor sites linking to Microsoft.com sites must offer customers a P3P
statement. Resources for implementing P3P include:
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