Policy makers are rethinking the role of government in regulating privacy on the Web and asking how technology tools can help, ... In that sense, the P3P timing has been very good.

Policy makers are rethinking the role of government in regulating privacy on the Web and asking how technology tools can help. In that sense, the P3P timing has been very good.

The proposed system would be contrary to at least the spirit of federal information policy adopted by the E-Government Act of 2002.

This is a technical standard designed to give users more control over their privacy and to make it easier to extend that kind of control to users which will build more trust in e-commerce.

It's a replay of the bad old days when you built a Web site according to the behavior of an individual browser,

We've been very gratified with the conversations we've been having with policy-makers.