Paper Info
Title
Searching for privacy: design and implementation of a p3p-enabled search engine
Abstract
Although the number of online privacy policies is increasing, it remains difficult for Internet users to understand them, let alone to compare policies across sites or identify sites with the best privacy practices. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) developed the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P 1.0) specification to provide a standard computer-readable format for privacy policies. This standard enables web browsers and other user agents to interpret privacy policies on behalf of their users. This paper introduces our prototype P3P-enabled Privacy Bird Search engine. Users of this search service are given visual indicators of the privacy policies at sites included in query results. Our system acts as a front end to a general search engine by evaluating the P3P policies associated with search results against a user's privacy preference settings. To improve system performance we cache unexpired P3P policy information (including information about the absence of P3P policies) for thousands of the most popular sites as well as for sites that have been returned in previous search results. We discuss the system architecture and its implementation, and consider the work necessary to evolve our prototype into a fully functional and efficient service.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1007/11423409_20
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Keywords
Field
DocType
p3p policy information,p3p policy,search service,privacy policy,p3p-enabled search engine,privacy preference setting,previous search result,online privacy policy,best privacy practice,general search engine,search result,front end,search engine,system architecture,system performance,world wide web,user agent
Web search query,World Wide Web,Internet privacy,Privacy by Design,Computer security,Computer science,Privacy policy,Information privacy,User interface,User agent,Privacy software,The Internet
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3424
0302-9743
3-540-26203-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
1.62
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon Byers112218.31
Lorrie Faith Cranor26767515.80
Dave Kormann312727.77
P. McDaniel47174494.57