The Aadhaar judgment holds important lessons (and warnings) for how courts and the polity should respond to the technological vision of the state. The task before the Supreme Court was … Read more
The US Supreme Court recently released a landmark ruling in Carpenter vs. United States, which held that law enforcement authorities must secure a warrant in order to access citizens’ cell-site … Read more
Lawmakers in the EU have proposed a new legal framework that will make it easier for police in one country to get access to user data in another country (so-called … Read more
After nearly a decade of debate, the Brazilian Congress has just passed the Brazilian Data Protection Bill (PLC 53/2018). As a company that has fought for strong data protection around … Read more
We’ve argued for many years that governments should implement transparent processes to review and disclose the vulnerabilities that they learn about. Such processeses are essential for the cybersecurity of citizens, … Read more
Update: “We’re pleased to see California passed a sweeping privacy law to protect your data and right to choose how it’s used. It’s still not perfect, but we’re not letting … Read more
Mozilla is deeply concerned by news reports that India’s first data protection law may include data localization requirements. Recent leaks suggest that the Justice Srikrishna Committee, the group charged by … Read more
What happened? A french version of this blog post is also available. In February 2018, the French regulator, ARCEP, published a report on how device, browser, and OS level restrictions … Read more
As we’ve argued on many occasions, effective government vulnerability disclosure (GVD) review processes can greatly enhance cybersecurity for governments, citizens, and companies, and help mitigate risk in an ever-broadening cyber … Read more
The G20 member states account for 85 percent of the global economy and are home to half of the world’s internet users. From artificial intelligence to personal data protections, our … Read more
At Mozilla, we work to advance a healthy internet, because the internet sits at the heart of our global society and economy. In January of 2017, we published our first … Read more
We’ve long been concerned about Aadhaar, the Indian national biometric identity database. Despite Supreme Court of India directives to the contrary, the Government of India has been pushing aggressively for … Read more