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Troubleshooting P3P may sometimes be very frustrating. There are thousands of mail messages that are posted on the www-p3p-policy mailing list from the webmasters that are working on enabling P3P on their web-sites, but have run into difficulties. In some cases, people simply do not understand the way P3P works, but in other cases the webmasters have partially enabled P3P, but with some details not right. The first thing that must be done, after enabling P3P on your site, would be to check it, to ensure that this implementation is correct.

Even though P3P has been designed to promote privacy and trust, and enable individuals to make informed decisions about the collection and use of their personal information, P3P alone does not guarantee privacy or trust. Trust is built upon the mutual understanding that each party will respect the agreement reached. In order to preserve trust and protect privacy, organizations should only collect personal information with the knowledge and agreement of the person whom it relates, and inform that person about the way information will be used and with

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

The term "privacy" covers a very wide range of concerns, and it is important that one understands from the outset the precise scope of the P3P work. P3P will enable sites to express privacy practices and for user to express their preferences about those practices and have their agent act on it accordingly. The user agent can then provide the user a safe and seamless experience. A P3P interaction will result in an agreement between the service and the user agent regarding the practices associated with a user's implicit (i.e., click stream) or explicit