Mozilla’s Climate Commitments
Based on Mozilla’s greenhouse gas emissions assessment, we are now pledging carbon-neutrality as well as significant reductions in our organisation emissions going forward. Read more
Reimagine Open: Building a Healthier Internet
Does the “openness” that made the internet so successful also inevitably lead to harms online? Is an open internet inherently a haven for illegal speech, for eroding privacy and security, … Read more
Why getting voting right is hard, Part IV: Absentee Voting and Vote By Mail
This is the fourth post in my series on voting systems. Part I covered requirements and then Part II and Part III covered in-person voting using paper ballots. However, paper … Read more
We need more than deplatforming
There is no question that social media played a role in the siege and take-over of the US Capitol on January 6. Since then there has been significant focus on … Read more
Why getting voting right is hard, Part III: Optical Scan
This is the third post in my series on voting systems. For background see part I. As described in part II, hand-counted paper ballots have a number of attractive security … Read more
Our Year in Review: How we’ve kept Firefox working for you in 2020
This year began like any other year, with our best intentions and resolutions to carry out. Then by March, the world changed and everyone’s lives — personally and professionally — … Read more
Mozilla’s Vision for Trustworthy AI
Mozilla is publishing its white paper, “Creating Trustworthy AI.” A little over two years ago, Mozilla started an ambitious project: deciding where we should focus our efforts to grow the … Read more
Why getting voting right is hard, Part II: Hand-Counted Paper Ballots
In Part I we looked at desirable properties for voting system. In this post, I want to look at the details of a specific system: hand-counted paper ballots. Hand-counted paper … Read more
Why getting voting right is hard, Part I: Introduction and Requirements
Every two years around this time, the US has an election and the rest of the world marvels and asks itself one question: What the heck is going on with … Read more
State of Mozilla 2019-2020: Annual Impact Report
2020 has been a year like few others with the internet’s value and necessity front and center. The State of Mozilla for 2019-2020 makes clear that Mozilla’s mission and role … Read more
Release: Mozilla’s Greenhouse Gas emissions baseline
Release of Mozilla’s 2019 Greenhouse Gas emissions baseline, detailing the environmental impact for all three scopes and applicable categories and adding context and a few data visualisations to help make sense of these findings. Read more
Mozilla Reaction to U.S. v. Google
Today the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, alleging that it unlawfully maintains monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising … Read more