Webprivacy
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Introduction
Webprivacy is an extension which adds P3P support (cp. The Platform for Privacy Preferences or the master thesis for more details) to Mozilla Firefox 3+. It allows users to define privacy preferences. Webprivacy then checks for every website a user is visiting whether this website fulfills the users' privacy preferences or not.
Features of Webprivacy
- Different Levels of predfined privacy levels
- Custom privacy level
- Human-readable P3P policies
- Easy-to-recognize P3P status of a website by using an icon in the browsers' toolbar
- Caching of checked websites (cache can be cleared and is resetted after every browser restart)
Not supported P3P features
- Im- and export of privacy settings
- Expiry-Element
- Webprivacy does not check P3P policies before the website is actually loaded or a cookie is set
- Compact-Policies
- Elements added by using the extension-mechanism
- Multiple policies in one file
Installation
The xpi-file can be downloaded here. Just unzip and drag- and drop the xpi-file over an open Firefox window and the installation will begin automatically.
Screenshots
Webprivacy Preferences
Website matches P3P preferences
Website does not match P3P preferences
Sources
You can checkout the complete source for Webprivacy from subversion:
svn checkout https://svn.semanticlab.net/svn/oss/thesis/webprivacy/
