Sentence examples for compact policy from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

To cope with the changing system dynamics and performance constraints, we present a new online POMDP method based on particle filtering that produces compact policies.

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.

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.

And it has been the power of I.E.'s market share-60 percent, according to NetMarketshare-that has led sites that want to install cookies onto PCs to use compact policies, say experts like Dr. Cranor and Ari Schwartz, vice president at the Center for Democracy and Technology until he joined the Obama administration last month.