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  • zecg@lemmy.world
    365·
    6 days ago

    Mozilla is NOT SELLING your DATA, but they are collecting it and sharing it with select partners in order to “stay comercially viable”.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      185·
      6 days ago

      They’re not claiming a right to sell data right now, but they have removed the promise to not sell data.

      That promise is a canary statement. When the canary dies it’s an indication of something, usually that it’s time to stop using the product/service.

      More specifically, they aren’t claiming the right to sell data however they want. However, they do have to follow all legal requests, and they can bill for this provision. If a government compells them to sell they have to oblige.

      • vaguerant@fedia.io
        161·
        6 days ago

        I would replace that “aggregated and anonymized” with an and/or, as that is consistent with the language in Mozilla’s privacy policy. The distinction is fairly important because de-anonymizing user data is a practice of its own and exactly what it sounds like.

        Now, is the data which Mozilla “shares with” (sells to) its partners anonymized reliably enough that the identity of the person it relates to can never be rediscovered? Granting Mozilla the benefit of the doubt, if it is sufficiently anonymous today, could future developments lead to de-anonymization of that data at a later date? This could include leaks, cyber-attacks directed at Mozilla, AI-assisted statistical analysis of bulk data, etc.