Thursday, April 25, 2013

Mozilla Firefox wants to track you – just say NO! [feedly]


 
 
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Mozilla Firefox wants to track you – just say NO!
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I noticed on the new version of Firefox that it wanted mt to enable something called "Telemetry" which supposedly was so then could better debug their product. But unlike most people I actually read the agreement. This information sharing is NOT ANONYMOUS. They keep a personal database of everything and their protection of this information is squishy. So – just say NO!
Here's some excerpts:

Legal Process and Other Disclosures

Consistent with our privacy commitments, we will scrutinize third party requests for information about you for compliance with the law, including those coming from governmental agencies or civil litigants. We may access, use, preserve or disclose information about you only when we have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to do so to satisfy the applicable law, regulation, legal process or lawful governmental request of any country, or to protect the rights, property or safety of Mozilla, its users or the public. We will provide notice of legal process or governmental requests unless prohibited to do so by law or the circumstances warrant otherwise.

What and When We Share with Third Parties

Mozilla's policy is to make Personal Information, such as your name and email address, and Potentially Personal Information, such as the URL of the site you last visited, only available to its employees, contractors, and selected contributors who signed confidentiality agreements that prohibit them from using or disclosing such information other than for approved Mozilla purposes.

We also work with third parties who provide infrastructure or back-end services (like content delivery networks, bandwidth providers, and services of an administrative nature). We may share Personal Information about you with such third parties for the purpose of enabling these third parties to provide such services.

Additionally, Mozilla may need to transfer Personal Information to an affiliate or successor in the event of a change of our corporate structure or status, such as in the event of a restructuring, sale, or bankruptcy.

 




Dwight A. Hunt, Sr. A+, MCP
Desktop Support Specialist - Lead

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