Lessig Speaks on Free vs. Controlled Resource . Your ebusiness goes through a lot of trouble to collect customers' profiling data, walking that fine line between your customers' demands for privacy and your desire for information. To let that data sit around and grow stale seems a shame. But many e-companies do just that. Daily News Los Angeles - P3P screens for privacy policies .
Skeptics question how well social and business practices can be boiled down to bits and bytes.
He worries consumers may have a false sense of comfort if they mistake privacy statements for privacy protections. There is also a lot P3P can't do. It can't address sites that go out of business and try to sell assets, including customer lists. Nor will it be able to detect dishonesty. P3P puts a little more power back in the hands of the user.