Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Magisterarbeit - SemanticLab
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Figure 6.5.: The privacy policy of p3ptools.org does match the users’ preferences<br />
6.3.3. Issues<br />
Beside a good user-experience, P3P clients need to be as reliable as possible. However,<br />
the P3P standard also has to consider that other organizations or companies have different<br />
or more detailed requirements when it comes to expressing their privacy policies.<br />
That is why the extension mechanism was introduced to extend the P3P Base Data<br />
Schema as already discussed in Chapter 3. However, this raises the question how P3P<br />
clients such as Webprivacy should react to data-elements which are not in the Base Data<br />
Schema. IBM for example defines its own data schema for data it collects on its website<br />
such as the computers’ serial number when using the online services for IBM/Lenovo<br />
computers.<br />
Another issue was partly addressed in the previous section but should be dealt with<br />
in more detail. The problems of not well-formed policies or reference files which link to<br />
a non-existing P3P policy should be highlighted on the basis of two examples:<br />
• IBM.com: IBM has a P3P reference file in place at the well-known location, that<br />
is “www.ibm.com/w3c/p3p.xml”. Besides the issue that this policy reference file<br />
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