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Microsoft plans to incorporate the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)-developed Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) specification into its Internet Explorer 6 and Windows XP operating system, both available in fall 2001. P3P lets Internet surfers select levels of privacy protection in dealing with Web sites, and in particular with the sites' use of cookie files. But many analysts question whether P3P is sufficient to protect users' privacy and worry about possible Microsoft domination of Web privacy. The privacy tools in Internet Explorer 6 will let