Mozilla: All Firefox Users Get California's CCPA Privacy Rights To Delete Personal Data (zdnet.com) 34
Mozilla has announced that it's rolling out changes under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) to all Firefox users worldwide. ZDNet reports: The CCPA, known as America's toughest privacy legislation, came into effect on January 1, 2020, offering Californian users data-protection rules better suited to today's world of data collection. Much like Europe's GDPR, the CCPA gives consumers the right to know what personal information is collected about them and to be able to access it. While the law technically only applies to data processed about residents in California, Microsoft has already announced that it will roll out CCPA rights to all its U.S. users so they can control their data.
The Californian proposal wasn't popular among Silicon Valley tech giants, but Mozilla notes it was one of the few companies to endorse CCPA from the outset. Mozilla has now outlined the key change it's made to Firefox, which will ensure CCPA regulations benefit all its users worldwide. The move would seem to make business sense too, saving Mozilla from having to ship a California-only version of Firefox and another version for the rest of the world. The main change it's introducing is allowing users to request that Mozilla deletes Firefox telemetry data stored on its servers. That data doesn't include web history, which Mozilla doesn't collect anyway, but it does include data about how many tabs were opened and browser session lengths. The new control will ship in the next version of Firefox due out on January 7, which will include a feature to request desktop telemetry data be deleted directly from the browser.
The Californian proposal wasn't popular among Silicon Valley tech giants, but Mozilla notes it was one of the few companies to endorse CCPA from the outset. Mozilla has now outlined the key change it's made to Firefox, which will ensure CCPA regulations benefit all its users worldwide. The move would seem to make business sense too, saving Mozilla from having to ship a California-only version of Firefox and another version for the rest of the world. The main change it's introducing is allowing users to request that Mozilla deletes Firefox telemetry data stored on its servers. That data doesn't include web history, which Mozilla doesn't collect anyway, but it does include data about how many tabs were opened and browser session lengths. The new control will ship in the next version of Firefox due out on January 7, which will include a feature to request desktop telemetry data be deleted directly from the browser.
Does this apply (Score:2)
To SeaMonkey users too?
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So Firesux is unusable
I don't understand where this attitude comes from? I have exclusively used FireFox since it was first introduced and have never had issues with it.
Agreed. (Score:2)
I have been a loyal Firefox user for a long time and have never had a problem with it. I recall people were upset around them including "pocket" by default, but it is easily disabled.
It seems like some people just hunt for excuses to hate things.
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I doubt since Mozilla doesn't care for SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, etc. :(
What data does a browser collect? (Score:1)
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They are moving beyond cookies.
Look at companies like everylead:
https://www.callsource.com/blo... [callsource.com]
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But even if you only enable Javascript on a few select web sites, I'll bet that you're still leaking plenty of identifiable information between all those sites.
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Just easier to swap to https://www.waterfox.net/ [waterfox.net] and you get to put your tab bar back where it belongs, rather than deal with the arrogance of the latest firefox crew (screw but you can code it back in the right place on every single update). No telemetry and have your tab where you like at a setting of an control no coding required, like wtf?!?
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Nah, they should be iconised on the side [i.vgy.me]. ;)
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Firefox allows extensions to delete this data. Chrome lacks an API for it, you can delete it all but not on a per site basis.
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As long as they don't include any personally identifying data I don't care. Of course they should advertise it on install and also let the user easily disable it. Microsoft fails on the second one because they apparently don't have any respect for their users.
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Cookies aren't stored in my Firefox account [mozilla.org]
control their data? (Score:2)
See it, maybe. Not control it.
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You might care to re-read the first para in /.'s article summary.
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"Microsoft" is surely a typo - they must mean "Mozilla".
I thought so, too, but it's not [zdnet.com] (from the TFA).
Wait, what??!!?? (Score:3)
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1. You need addons to protect your browsing.
2. Default search engine is run by data miner.
3. Location bar is feeding your browsing activities to same miner instead of running as address bar.
4. Pushes features that store private user information on their servers.
5. Do you need more...
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Nothing. This isn't anything to do with Firefox and everything to do with your optional Firefox account [mozilla.org]
Dear Fucking Mozilla et. al. - How about ... (Score:2)
Firefox forces its automatic updates anyway. Just call it this unfinished thingy. It amazes me how this development thing works. Everyone just produces unfinished works, that are built on top of unfinished frameworks etc ...
In the real (physical world) if you deliver an unfinished product you are not getting paid, simple as that.
Not on the WWW, you send it and work out the "bugs" later. Bugs, nice name for broken software or poor craftsmanship. In the real world you would of lost your job.
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Firefox forces its automatic updates anyway.
I'm not being forced upgrades by Firefox. In Linux they are not even being suggested, and in Windows 7 which I use sometimes Firefox constantly nags me to accept an update, but does not force it. Perhaps my version of Firefox has not been updated enough to reach a version where updates are forced. I like it that way.
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