P3P and the privacy legislation in Germany:can P3P help to protect privacy worldwide?
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Privacy is a basic cultural requirement, often regulated by national law, but not everywhere in the same way. Privacy protection must be effective accross national borders. Technical tools and procedures can help to enforce and propagate privacy protection for Internet communication worldwide. This article evaluates the effect of P3P against legal requirements, particularly against those strict laws in Germany and Europe. It is an interdisciplinary cooperation with technical and legal background. This article can be downloaded from http://sit.gmd.de/~grimm/texte/P3P-Germany-e.pdf There is a longer version of this article which additionally includes a technical overview and a historical background of P3P. This will be published by the Multimedia and Security Workshop at ACM Multimedia, Nov 4, 2000, Los Angeles.
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