| A "watch-bird" for privacy |
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| Tuesday, 09 January 2007 | |||||
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The P3P, is a protocol allowing websites to declare their intended use of information they collect about browsing users. It was designed and officially reccomended in 2002, to give users more control of their personal information when browsing. Up to now a very small number of webmasters adopted P3P protocols and no tool for “privacy-control” is supported by common browsers yet. Anyway, something is changing and day by day new instruments are tested and released on this proposal.
For instance, Privacy Bird is a small tool that help user find out what web sites will do with their information before they provide it. The tool is completely free and it can be added to Internet Explorer Web browser (version 5.01/5.5/6.0 on Microsoft Windows platforms). Besides, it is associated to Privacy Finder, a free search engine that will allow to identify websites that respect users’ privacy. The project was originally developed by the US based company AT &T but now it is managed by CUPS Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University. According to the home page of Privacy Bird website, once the tool is installed, it “utomatically searches for privacy policies at every website you visit." "You can tell the software about your privacy concerns, and it will tell you whether each site's policies match your personal privacy preferences. The software displays a green bird icon at Web sites that match, and a red bird icon at sites that do not.” You have to set up your choices about privacy and then, a “bird” will warn you by changing its color: when no privacy policy is available on a certain web site, the bird change into yellow, when privacy policies matches to our choices the bird will turn to green and when privacy policies are in contrast to our choices.. it becomes red. Nice trick...Anyone who’d like to try it?
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