Would you trust your privacy to the death star?
AT&T, the telecommunications giant that now wants to be your cable broadband provider says it wants to help you manage your online privacy. The company has released a beta version of its Privacy Bird software at no charge.
The software merely reads the Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) policies of the websites you visit and reports how closely the site’s policies match your personal privacy preferences. In true AT&T style, the software works only on the Internet Explorer browser running on the MS Windows operating system.
AT&T, the corporate megalith that cares more about closed, controlled, private networks than anything else, takes your privacy so seriously that it felt compelled to employ a cartoon character to report on websites’ compliance with your privacy preferences. Seriously. A singing green bird when all is well; an uncertain yellow bird when it can’t find the privacy policy; and an angry red bird when the website’s privacy policy conflicts with your preferences.
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