Why I’m Joining Mozilla’s Board of Directors
Like many of us I suspect, I have long been a fairly passive “end-user” of the internet. In my daily life, I’ve merrily skipped along it to simplify and accelerate … Read more
Why I’m Joining Mozilla’s Board of Directors
My introduction to Mozilla was when Firefox was first launched. I was starting my career as a software developer in Boston, MA at the time. My experience was Firefox was … Read more
Next steps on trustworthy AI: transparency, bias and better data governance
Over the last few years, Mozilla has turned its attention to AI, asking: how can we make the data driven technologies we all use everyday more trustworthy? How can we … Read more
Mozilla Welcomes the Rust Foundation
Today Mozilla is thrilled to join the Rust community in announcing the formation of the Rust Foundation. The Rust Foundation will be the home of the popular Rust programming language … Read more
What WebRTC means for you
If I told you that two weeks ago IETF and W3C finally published the standards for WebRTC, your response would probably be to ask what all those acronyms were. Read … Read more
Why getting voting right is hard, Part V: DREs (spoiler: they’re bad)
This is the fifth post in my series on voting systems (catch up on parts I, II, III and IV), focusing on computerized voting machines. The technical term for these … Read more
Mozilla’s Climate Commitments
Based on Mozilla’s greenhouse gas emissions assessment, we are now pledging carbon-neutrality as well as significant reductions in our organisation emissions going forward. Read more
Reimagine Open: Building a Healthier Internet
Does the “openness” that made the internet so successful also inevitably lead to harms online? Is an open internet inherently a haven for illegal speech, for eroding privacy and security, … Read more
Why getting voting right is hard, Part IV: Absentee Voting and Vote By Mail
This is the fourth post in my series on voting systems. Part I covered requirements and then Part II and Part III covered in-person voting using paper ballots. However, paper … Read more
We need more than deplatforming
There is no question that social media played a role in the siege and take-over of the US Capitol on January 6. Since then there has been significant focus on … Read more
Why getting voting right is hard, Part III: Optical Scan
This is the third post in my series on voting systems. For background see part I. As described in part II, hand-counted paper ballots have a number of attractive security … Read more
Our Year in Review: How we’ve kept Firefox working for you in 2020
This year began like any other year, with our best intentions and resolutions to carry out. Then by March, the world changed and everyone’s lives — personally and professionally — … Read more