Privacy Fox: A Firefox extension to translate XML privacy policies into plain language
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What's New
- The xpi download is now fixed. Please dowload from this site. Updating via extension manager may not work.
- This site is now being set up
What is P3P?
P3P is a W3C-ratified XML standard that websites can use to publish their privacy policies in a machine-readable form. User agents (formal name for software tools on the client end) can read these, and perform a variety of tasks, such as notifying the user or even changing the transaction (such as not accepting cookies).
Why Privacy Fox?
- The best browser tool for P3P translation is AT&T's Privacy Bird, but it is IE-specific. This is an attempt to create a simple version for Firefox, given its user-base's bias towards privacy.
- It started as a project for a class on privacy. The project's ultimate goal is in summarizing the privacy policy of P3P-enabled sites in a form that balances user-awareness with completeness and accuracy of translation.
How do I install and run Privacy Fox?
Look at the installation page.
Test sites
If you want to test the extension or see what a P3P policy looks like, see this page for a list of sites that the extension has been tested on.
If you do not get a response to a question posted in this forum, please try sending a message to the project's mailing list or to the project owner directly.
- [1] Submitted by: Peter Ulber on Friday 7th January 2005 at 06:42 -0500
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1st: Thanks for fixing the xpi problem. Now it works.
2nd: The P3P specification designates "/w3c/p3p.xml" as the default location for the policy reference file. But there are two alternatives: (a) sending a special p3p header or (b) using LINK tags that give the location of the policy reference file. We're using LINK tags, but privacyfox ignores it. Therefore for p3p enabled websites using LINK tags privacyfox is not able to find the p3p policy :-(bye
peter(peter@dergrossebruder.org)
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; chrome://navigator/locale/navigator.properties; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 - [2] Submitted by: Fahd on Wednesday 9th March 2005 at 17:05 -0500
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I already replied to Peter, but for public FYI: The very next item on my todo list is to fetch the XML policies using XMLHttpRequest. I haven't had much success with this, but if there is a breakthrough, I'll be able to implement the alternate methods of file fetching. I was told by a good authority (Dr. Cranor, one of the P3P designers) that 98% of P3P policies are published via the well-known location. If you know of any sites that use the alternate methods, drop me an email. They'll be really useful for testing purposes.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1 - [3] Submitted by: netdragon on Tuesday 18th October 2005 at 21:04 -0400
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My compact policy shows:
p3p: policyref="/100125/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="NOI DSP LAW NID PSA OUR IND NAV STA COM"
But you're looking for the policy file at /w3c/p3p.xml. We have no access to /w3c/p3p.xml on the server. You should be using what we send in the p3p compact policy.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 - [4] Submitted by: Muvon53 on Saturday 31st December 2005 at 05:34 -0500
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This plugin works not with ff 1.5 :(
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051128 SUSE/1.5-0.1 Firefox/1.5 - [5] Submitted by: d0ktorz on Thursday 5th January 2006 at 08:27 -0500
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You can easily modify the xpi to work with 1.5
just download the xpi and open it with a zip packer
now edit the 'install.rdf' file and find the line1.0
change it to
1.5
and save it :)
works fine with my 1.5 firefox. only the automatically
update won't work :/
I hope it will be fixed in the xpi soon.Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051213 Firefox/1.5 - [6] Submitted by: B4mb00ch4 on Tuesday 31st January 2006 at 14:42 -0500
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@d0ktorz: Thx! :]
Good idea!Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
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