Sentence examples for compact policies from inspiring English sources

Compact policies are voluntary and are part of an Internet standard called Platform for Privacy Preferences, or P3P, that was developed in the 1990s.

The loophole sites are using to evade I.E.'s cookie blocker shows up in the process the browser uses to check compact policies.

The goal of compact policies was to create a way of describing sites' privacy practices when it comes to cookies that computers could read and use.

The paper also notes that 134 sites with TRUSTe seals, which are meant to reassure consumers that strong privacy measures are in place at a Web site, have faulty compact policies.

Microsoft's I.E. browser is the only major browser to make meaningful use of P3P; it uses compact policies to block and control certain cookies by default with its "medium" privacy setting.

This checking is done through "compact policies": lines of computer code (in this case, three- or four-letter codes) that reflect the content of the tomelike privacy policies that sites have written out in English.

Mr. Maurer said he did not know the history of how "HONK" made it into a compact policy.

Instead of checking a site's compact policy, these browsers simply let people choose to block all cookies, block only third-party cookies or allow all cookies.

If it finds a compact policy with bad inputs - say, the codes are wrong (there are certain three- and four-letter combinations) or there aren't enough of the codes to complete a proper policy (at least five) - it simply lets the cookies install.

("Honk" is not a valid compact-policy code, nor does it resemble any valid codes, which would explain codes that were mistyped).

Ben Maurer, a software engineer at Facebook, said that the site used only two codes instead of five because current compact-policy codes do not "allow a rich enough description to accurately represent our privacy policy".