Alex Fowler
Mozilla is pleased to release a new interactive metrics page reporting monthly data on user adoption of Do Not Track (DNT) within Firefox. We’re making this data public both because it’s part of our mission and because we know there’s … Continue reading
Alex Fowler
Mozilla has a long running interest in fostering greater transparency, trust and accountability related to privacy and the many cookie-based practices we see today. On Friday, Mozilla released a Firefox patch into its “Nightly” channel that changes how cookies from … Continue reading
Sid Stamm
For a while now, we’ve been talking about how the Do Not Track feature really has three states: “user says nothing”, “user says track”, and “user says don’t track”. In Firefox 4, we introduced two of these states with a … Continue reading
Alex Fowler
We’re glad to see that Google has taken the next step in their commitment to Do Not Track. Now that all the major browsers have their DNT implementations well underway, it’s time for advertisers and publishers to do their part, … Continue reading
Alex Fowler
Today, Microsoft announced a change in how it will be implementing Do Not Track (DNT) in Internet Explorer. In a pre-release version of IE10, Microsoft will automatically start sending a DNT header on behalf of its users to not be … Continue reading
Alex Fowler
Mozilla introduced the Do Not Track header last year to give users more control over online tracking by third parties. Since launching Do Not Track, we have seen increased industry support and user adoption of the feature. Today, we are … Continue reading
Sid Stamm
The guiding principles behind Do Not Track aren’t just for web browsers and pages. Tracking happens in a variety of ways, including through email, so we’re putting Do Not Track into Thunderbird. Email Tracking. Sometimes email messages you receive contain … Continue reading
Tom Lowenthal
In DC, sixty representatives from diverse groups sat together for three days this week and continued the hard work of defining a Do Not Track standard we can all live with. With contributors from the major web browser makers, many … Continue reading
Alex Fowler
As part of our week of exciting announcements for Mobile World Congress, Mozilla is demonstrating the world’s first implementation of Do Not Track for a mobile Web OS. We’re also presenting a mock-up of the new 3-state setting for Do Not Track, … Continue reading
Alex Fowler
We’re excited to see the White House and Commerce Department unveil their much-anticipated consumer privacy white paper and call for a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights today. The team there put a tremendous amount of work into gathering public input … Continue reading