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 … Read more
DNT is often compared to other browser security and privacy features, such as malware and phishing protection. This reveals a common misunderstanding about what sort of feature DNT is and … Read more
As Do Not Track picks up steam and standardization is well underway in the W3C, people have begun asking, “If Do Not Track is so good for the web, why don’t you turn it on by default?” Do Not Track is not Mozilla’s position on tracking, it’s the individual’s! For that reason we have no plans to turn on Do Not Track by default. Read more
In looking at adoption of the Firefox Do Not Track (DNT) setting over the past two months, more than three times as many of our users have turned on DNT … Read more
Mozilla introduced the Do Not Track privacy feature to give users a way to tell companies they don’t want to be tracked online. We’ve seen growth and adoption of Do … Read more
Last week saw the first meeting of the W3C’s Tracking Protection Working Group, a cross-section of advertisers, browser vendors, publishers and public interest groups come together to agree on a … Read more
As many people know, Mozilla jumped into Do Not Track (DNT) in a big way earlier this year by providing Firefox users on desktop and mobile with a simple way … Read more
The DNT meme has crossed the Atlantic! Two important policy makers in Europe made statements just one week apart supporting Do Not Track (DNT). It appears there’s genuine interest by … Read more
I’ve been in London this week to participate in a forum hosted by the ISBA on “Cookies, Privacy and Consumers: What Every Business Needs to Know,” as well as to … Read more
Mozilla continues to see progress with regard to Do Not Track, including adoption by online marketing, ad networks and tracking companies. It’s certainly fair to say that market adoption of … Read more
Mozilla’s Do Not Track privacy feature in Firefox provides users more control over online behavioral tracking. Two developments bring it closer to being respected by industry. Mozilla is a nonprofit … Read more
Last week we submitted comments to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in response to their request for comment on a proposal describing a new framework for protecting consumer privacy in … Read more