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[FYI] Microsoft Announces Internet Tools to Control Web Privacy



http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/biztech/articles/07privacy.h
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April 7, 2000

Microsoft Announces Internet Tools to Control Web Privacy  

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  

ORONTO -- Microsoft Corp. promised free Internet tools Thursday based 
on emerging privacy standards for controlling how much information 
Web users reveal.  

Coming from the world's largest software company, the tools could 
give impetus for Web sites and other companies to embrace the 
Platform for Privacy Practices, or P3P. The World Wide Web 
Consortium, an Internet standards group, may finalize P3P this 
summer.  

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