Last year was a big year for the open Web: net neutrality became a mainstream phrase in the United States, data retention and surveillance were hotly contested at government levels … Read more
At Mozilla, we believe that users trust products more when companies build in transparency and user control. Earned trust can drive a virtuous cycle of adoption, while conversely, mistrust created … Read more
Last year, we unveiled the Mozilla Open Software Patent License as part of our Initiative to help limit the negative impacts that patents have on open source software. While those … Read more
This was originally posted at StaySafeOnline.org in advance of Data Privacy Day. Data Privacy Day – which arrives in just a week – is a day designed to raise awareness … Read more
Today a United States appellate court in Washington, D.C. [heard] oral arguments over a lawsuit challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) recent net neutrality order. We filed a joint amicus … Read more
The British Government has proposed legislation that would expand the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The draft omnibus Investigatory Powers Bill purports to modernise and update surveillance … Read more
In April, I wrote about the challenges the patent system presents to open source software development. I believed then that Mozilla needed to do more by leveraging our mission and … Read more
This week, the U.S. Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a bill intended to promote the sharing of cybersecurity threat information. Mozilla joined the major tech companies and … Read more
UPDATE: Today, a bitter-sweet victory for net neutrality in Europe: the European Parliament voted on the Telecoms Single Market Regulation (TSM), which will bring some protections for the open internet … Read more
Tomorrow (Friday) the German legislature (the Bundestag) is set to vote on a mandatory data retention law that would require telecommunications and internet service providers to store the location data, … Read more
The inaugural cohort of the Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows met in New York last week for only the second time face to face. Working remotely from Lima, Washington DC, Boston … Read more
Earlier this year, we wrote about CalECPA (official name: SB 178), a bill in the state of California that would improve privacy protections for Internet users by requiring due process … Read more