P3P Already Out Of Date? Privacy from Companies7/7/2000; 2:01:37 PM Nothing much is happening today... that's generally good news I wanted to point out something about the Platform for Privacy Preferences. In light of the news laws concerning electronic signatures, is P3P already out of date? If you load the P3P standard, the word "signature" appears a grand total of zero times.Considering the ease with which you can now sign away your privacy rights, this is a big hole in the P3P specs. You can claim your site has wonderful privacy, tricking all P3P browsers into visiting without objection to this wonderful privacy policy, then trick the user into clicking a link that is a contract to collect information anyhow. (How do you trick the user? How about some fine print on the bottom of the page that clicking any further link is permission for the company to track anything they want to? It would be sufficient as the law currently reads.)P3P isn't even trustworthy if there are legal loopholes like this (assuming that P3P could even be considered binding). At the very least, there should be fields added to the spec, explaining what the company plans to do or not do with electronic signatures. That would be useful to me... I'd set my browser to reject anything using electronic signatures.