Pretty Poor Privacy

Saw this over at Slashdot

EPIC has just released a harsh criticism of the Pretty Poor Privacy specification from W3C. Although automatic data
transfer is not in the P3P spec itself any longer (taken out after polls showed people didn't like it), implementations of
P3P will still include automatic data transfer mechanisms - the idea behind P3P is that viewers will be required to
reveal their addresses and other personal information to every commercial site they access or be denied entrance, and that this data
transfer will be effectively hidden from users so it will be "out of sight, out of mind". (For a more in-depth article about P3P and Internet
privacy generally, see this paper, written in response to Lessig's support of P3P in his recent book.)