Mozilla has been in the news for updating their terms of use regarding data.
“When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox,”
This change in the privacy policy sparked criticism from its users.
Mozilla’s Firefox has been a bastion of privacy and transparency. With its roots in open source, Firefox has always been a popular choice for people who don’t enjoy data tracking. To them, this privacy update must have been a blow.
But these concerns, luckily, reached Firefox, and they changed the TOU to: –
“You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to do as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.”
What does it mean for our data?
Data has been changing, and the policies surrounding it are, too. Now more than ever, data is seen as the holy grail.
Mozilla, being a non-profit, uses this data to generate revenue and has been doing so for a while with the users’ consent.
This user consent is becoming vital in moving forward. However, do audiences worldwide know what their consenting for?
What data is being moved around and to whom is it given? Although compliance is becoming strict, there remains ambiguity of the usage of people’s data.