Glossary of "The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification"

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user agent

From The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0 (P3P1.0) Specification (2002-04-16)

A program whose purpose is to mediate interactions with services on behalf of the user under the user's preferences. A user may have more than one user agent, and agents need not reside on the user's desktop, but any agent must be controlled by and act on behalf of only the user. The trust relationship between a user and his or her agent may be governed by constraints outside of P3P. For instance, an agent may be trusted as a part of the user's operating system or Web client, or as a part of the terms and conditions of an ISP or privacy proxy.

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