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Mozilla Plans to Collect User Data, Opt-Out Not Opt-In [Updated]

posted by martyb on Thursday August 24 2017, @02:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the choices dept.

canopic jug writes:

Neowin has a brief warning that Mozilla plans to collect anonymized user data. The given reason is to better understand how people use Firefox. Perhaps the most alarming aspect of this plan is that it is opt-out rather than opt-in. This is very far from the early days of Firefox when it had previously touted privacy as one of its main advantages.

As stated in the Google Groups announcement thread, they intend to use RAPPOR:

RAPPOR is a novel privacy technology that allows inferring statistics about populations while preserving the privacy of individual users.

This repository contains simulation and analysis code in Python and R.

[...] Publications

Links

[Update @ 20170824_152224 UTC: fixed bad link to Google Groups thread.]

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 24 2017, @03:35PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 24 2017, @03:35PM (#558468)

    why don't you mozilla idiots actually go out in to the real world and see with your own eyes how users use it, and actually ASK people face to face

    As I programmer I find this to be a very scary idea. If I wanted to meet people face to face I would leave my mom's basement.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 24 2017, @03:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 24 2017, @03:42PM (#558473)

    First documented case of honesty on this site? weird