And XML is the basis for the Platform for Privacy Preferences, techniques being developed to let browsers automatically interpret Web sites'privacy policies.
Firefly invented collaborative filtering and developed the first online collaborative recommendation software, and helped to define online privacy standards as a contributor to the Platform for Privacy Preferences.
On the technology side, the World Wide Web Consortium will demonstrate next week the prototype of a new system called Platform for Privacy Preferences, to be known as P3.
_Alleges that the Platform for Privacy Preferences, which Microsoft embraces as a language that Web sites can use to describe policy policies, doesn't meet the commission's own privacy standards.