Re: CMU Privacy-Enhanced Search Engine Study

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Seth [sethb () panix com]
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:11 PM
To: David Farber
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:    CMU Privacy-Enhanced Search Engine Study

harraton () gmail com [harraton () gmail com] On Behalf Of Janice Tsai
[harraton () cmu edu] wrote:

> The purpose of Privacy Finder is to make privacy information more
> accessible.  It does that by pulling P3P policies for users and
> displays a "privacy meter" of how well that particular site's P3P
> policy matches your preferences.

In other words, it completely ignores whether or not the site actually
follows good privacy practices, because it's easier to look at its
policy.

Many sites claim to have good practices, yet email addresses given
only to them end up in the hands of spammers.

Seth

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