Though the awareness is less heightened here, there have been times when Singaporeans were irked by possible privacy violations. Privacy policies help to a certain extent, in allaying some of those fears. But reading them can be a pain sometimes. Or you may have been put off and simply clicked to another site. An example of how P3P works has been illustrated below.
User enters a web address.
The target site's privacy policy is retrieved from the Web server. The site's privacy policy and user's preferences are compared. If the site's policies and user's preferences are congruent, the web page is displayed on the user's computer. A pop-up window warns the user and user has the option of continuing or opting out. There are critics of P3P who doubt how fast and effectively can this technology be implemented.