In DC, sixty representatives from diverse groups sat together for three days this week and continued the hard work of defining a Do Not Track standard we can all live … Read more
As part of our week of exciting announcements for Mobile World Congress, Mozilla is demonstrating the world’s first implementation of Do Not Track for a mobile Web OS. We’re also presenting a … Read more
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
At Mozilla, we’ve long focused on building software that gives users sovereignty over their online lives. This means designing in ways that provide people deeper insights into how the web … 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
For a while now we at Mozilla have been talking about our privacy operating principles. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to make sure we deliver on these promises, and want to share a little bit of the backstage work we’ve done to make Firefox live up to these promises when we release a new feature called Telemetry. 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