The COPE project will enhance end-users’ privacy by providing technology to clarify the consequences of information sharing so that the gap between privacy concerns and actual behaviour can be reduced. The project will make policies and user preferences an integral part of the technology in order to improve the impact policies have on user behaviour. As opposed to the current concept of “one-time acceptance, infinite use”, this project will make it possible to continuously assess whether privacy policies meet end-user expectations and requirements. These goals will be achieved by developing a web browser plug-in allowing privacy preference specification, perform policy compliance assessments and display the result through an intuitive graphical user interface.