IP: EFF/Microsoft: Simplifying Adoption of Net Privacy Standards

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

For Release 9 a.m. EDT -- April 6, 1999

Microsoft and Electronic Frontier Foundation Propose Solutions
For Simplifying Adoption of Internet Privacy Standards

Will Aid Developers in Implementing Online Privacy Safeguards

Contact:
     Tara Lemmey, EFF Executive Director, 415 902 2912,
     tara () eff org


WASHINGTON -- April 6, 1999 -- Microsoft Corp. and the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) today jointly announced newly proposed guidelines for the
Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy
conference, an annual gathering of Internet policy-makers and the Internet
industry. The new technology and standards-based solution is designed to
accelerate the widespread adoption of P3P, a privacy framework that puts
people in control of their personal information and makes the Web a safer
place for commerce. The proposed guidelines, which will be submitted to the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), simplify the process by which Web sites of
all sizes can post privacy policies, and make privacy and security a
central part of e-commerce transactions.

Complete press release is available at
http://www.eff.org/privacypaper/19990406_privacypaper_pressrel.html

EFF White Paper: Architecture is Policy
Case Study: Cooperative development as a means for a standards-based
Implementation for Privacy on the Internet
http://www.eff.org/privacypaper



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  Alexander Fowler
  Director of Public Affairs
  Electronic Frontier Foundation

  E-mail: afowler () eff org
  Tel: 415 436 9333; Fax 415 436 9993

  You can find EFF on the Web at <http://www.eff.org>

  EFF supports the Global Internet Liberty Campaign
  <http://www.gilc.org>

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