Mozilla’s Cyber(in)security Summit
We’re excited to announce Mozilla’s Cyber(in)security Summit on October 24th in Washington, D.C. and streaming on Air Mozilla. Join us for a discussion on how we can all help secure … Read more
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Welcome to San Francisco, Chairman Pai – We Depend on Net Neutrality
This is an open letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai as he arrives in San Francisco for an event. He has said that Silicon Valley is a magically innovative place … Read more
Making Privacy More Transparent
How do you make complex privacy information easily accessible and understandable to users? At Mozilla, we’ve been thinking through this for the past several months from different perspectives: user experience, … Read more
Bringing the 4th Amendment into the Digital Age
Today, Mozilla has joined other major technology companies in filing an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States to reexamine how the 4th Amendment and search warrant … Read more
Mozilla Poll Shows Americans Agree: Protect the Internet, Net Neutrality
With the partisan fight over net neutrality raging in Washington, we thought it would be interesting to see what others – people who use and depend on the internet – … Read more
Fair Use is Essential to Software Development
Creativity and innovation do not occur in a vacuum. The greatest songs, movies, and art are frequently at least inspired by and sometimes borrow heavily from predecessors and contemporaries. Software … Read more
Should Patent Law Be a First Amendment Issue?
On Monday April 17th, Mozilla and Stanford Law are presenting a panel about intellectual property law and the First Amendment. We’ll talk about how IP law and the First Amendment … Read more
Internet Users Deserve Equal Rating Not Zero Rating
The FCC announced on Friday, February 3, 2017, it is stopping a review into wireless carriers that exclude certain applications, such as their own video streaming services, from counting against … Read more
The Invisible Patents in Your Holiday Shopping Cart
Despite the amount of technology in a shiny new smartphone, it’s hard not to feel a bit of sticker shock when buying one. Here’s something that may be even more … Read more
Time for a Conversation about Government Hacking
Mozilla and Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society recently hosted the first in a series of discussion events about government hacking. From the San Bernardino case, in which the FBI … Read more
This is what a rightsholder looks like in 2016
In today’s policy discussions around intellectual property, the term ‘rightsholder’ is often misconstrued as someone who supports maximalist protection and enforcement of intellectual property, instead of someone who simply holds … Read more
Reining in abuses of the DMCA notice system
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) should be reformed to help promote openness online. We’ve made this case before, posting about section 1201 on the circumvention of technological protection measures. … Read more