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Gartner Research: P3P Will Not Fix Passport Privacy Problems

Arabella Hallawell, a Gartner research analyst writes that enabling P3P on Passport sites will offer no real benefit to consumers. Further, the inclusion of P3P in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was intended to prevent privacy legislation from Congress.

Commentary: Passport needs better privacy, CNET (Gartner), August 23, 2001.