In a post this morning from Mozilla’s CTO Brendan Eich, we announced that we’re working with Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society to develop a Cookie Clearinghouse. The Cookie Clearinghouse … Read more
[This is the second of a two-part post from Mozilla’s User Experience team on their look at privacy and security. You can view the first post here.] Usability and security/privacy … Read more
[This is the first of a two-part post from Mozilla’s User Experience Research team on their look at privacy and security.] Mozilla’s User Experience Research team recently connected with the … Read more
Mozilla is pleased to release a new interactive metrics page reporting monthly data on user adoption of Do Not Track (DNT) within Firefox. We’re making this data public both because … Read more
As Mozilla launches Firefox OS and the Firefox Marketplace, we’ve been focused on improving privacy through empowering app developers and users to improve transparency, choice and control, including implementing a … Read more
Mozilla has a long running interest in fostering greater transparency, trust and accountability related to privacy and the many cookie-based practices we see today. On Friday, Mozilla released a Firefox … Read more
In the US, another version of CISPA was reintroduced yesterday in the House of Representatives. The White House has also issued an executive order on the same topic. Similarly in … Read more
For a while now, we’ve been talking about how the Do Not Track feature really has three states: “user says nothing”, “user says track”, and “user says don’t track”. In … Read more
With the latest release of Firefox for Android, we’ve added the ability to get search suggestions from Google before you even finish typing. With the small screen and even smaller … Read more
People really enjoy social features that help them connect with others. To offer these features, social networks often end collecting lots of personal info, and their users don’t always understand … Read more
Last week, I had the privilege of hosting a great meeting focused on the next phase of the Collusion project. With generous support from the Ford Foundation, we’re tackling a … Read more
We’re glad to see that Google has taken the next step in their commitment to Do Not Track. Now that all the major browsers have their DNT implementations well underway, … Read more