I would hope that doesn't mean they should be dismissed in their entirety at this early stage. It may be a partial response to protecting privacy, but it's a beginning. I ask for your patience while users in other countries with lesser protections develop technical means by which their privacy can be protected, in some measure, now . Suffice it to say that establishing the technical terms for a social protocol is a complicated matter. P3P, in attempting to provide an automatic, common Web language for the acceptable uses of personal information, has been grappling to find a way to do just that.
Much work remains to be done.
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