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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 11, 1995 - A wide-ranging group of publishers, telecommunications companies, Internet and online service providers and software firms are working together under the auspices of The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to develop an easy-to-use labeling and selection platform, called PICS, that empowers people worldwide to selectively control online content they receive through personal computers. PICS stands for Platform for Internet Content Selection, and is expected to be available royalty-free in early 1996. PICS is the result

The idea behind the system is that sites create P3P files describing their privacy policies, which can easily be read by browser software. Visitors set their own privacy preferences on their browsers, and if those preferences and the policies of visited sites match up, everybody is happy and the system stays in the background. If they don't match, the browser can point this out and ask the user what to do. It can also prevent actions that would otherwise happen automatically, for example it can block cookies if the user's preferences don't match the