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

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

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


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by mcgrew on Thursday August 24 2017, @05:40PM

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Thursday August 24 2017, @05:40PM (#558517) Homepage Journal

    I see the opposite problem: people installing apps for stuff like weather and news that you can get without an app wasting space on the device.

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