{"id":62372,"date":"2017-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2017\/09\/29\/improving-firefox-privacy-notice\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T04:23:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T04:23:55","slug":"improving-firefox-privacy-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/firefox\/improving-firefox-privacy-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving the Firefox Privacy Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2014, we reorganized our privacy policies to make them <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/2014\/04\/08\/clearer-mozilla-privacy-website-policies\/\">simple, clear, and usable<\/a>. That effort was based on simplifying the then 14-page privacy policy around a framework that retained some detail but helped users find information more quickly. We did this because of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/privacy\/principles\/\">Data Privacy Principles<\/a> that offer us guardrails as we develop our products and services.<\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019m happy to announce another revision of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/privacy\/firefox\">Firefox Privacy Notice<\/a>, which follows our<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/netpolicy\/2017\/09\/06\/making-privacy-transparent\/\"> initial <\/a>announcement on the topic. \u00a0We continue to build our products focusing on user control and fulfilling our \u201cno surprises\u201d rule when it comes to privacy. \u00a0We believe that in context notices with the user experience in mind make notices more understandable and actionable for users. Our updated notice includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A layered design to show what we collect, why we collect it, where you can learn more, and what your choices are.<\/li>\n<li>Language that is more specific and transparent when describing the types of data. \u00a0We have used the same terms as our internal teams, including: \u201ctechnical\u201d data, \u201cinteraction\u201d data, \u201cwebpage\u201d data and \u201clocation\u201d data.<\/li>\n<li>A more holistic explanation of how a feature interacts with data. \u00a0For example, we previously had a separate privacy notice for cloud features like Sync. \u00a0This technical distinction was confusing, so we removed that separate privacy notice and have made it a part of the new Firefox Privacy Notice where context is more understandable.<\/li>\n<li>On desktop platforms that support it, we have begun adding the ability to link the user directly into the appropriate user preferences so they can easily and quickly access privacy controls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-10884 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Firefox_Privacy-300x249.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/278\/files\/2017\/09\/Firefox_Privacy-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/278\/files\/2017\/09\/Firefox_Privacy-768x637.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve also changed our Firefox onboarding experience so that the Privacy Notice now displays on the second tab of a newly installed browser.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look and tell us if we met the standards we set by going to <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/mozilla.governance\/9txB7etE7E4\">Governance mailing list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We hope all of this offers a more meaningful opportunity for users to learn about how we design privacy into Firefox, and make choices about the data they wish to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2014, we reorganized our privacy policies to make them simple, clear, and usable. That effort was based on simplifying the then 14-page privacy policy around a framework that retained some detail but helped users find information more quickly. We did this because of our Data Privacy Principles that offer us guardrails as we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":10888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Improving the Firefox Privacy Notice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/firefox\/improving-firefox-privacy-notice\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" 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