This isn't technically about the data collection but it would be better if there was some sort of api that web developers could implement on sites like games so instead of regular chat things like co-op and game events could be streamlined into Hello itself
04.04.2016, 10:02, "Romain Testard" <rom...@mozilla.com>: > Hi all, > > We wanted to let you know about new data collection that we will be doing > for Firefox Hello starting with FF46 launch on April 19th, and the steps we > took to prevent it from collecting personal identification. We want to > collect more data about the websites that people share with Hello, to help > optimize the product UX, understand what people use our new tab sharing > feature for, and prioritize features accordingly. The product features and > UX can be very different if we decide to optimize against “Shopping > together” use cases as opposed to “Playing online games together”, just as > examples. > > We did a lot of diligence for this and explored several options for getting > the data. The approach described below is the one we settled on. It > prevents personal identification and gets us the data we need to build the > best tool we can while being sensitive to our users. This involves > collecting the domain names for tabs shared on Firefox Hello on our own > servers. > > How we collect the data > > We plan to put in place a data collection solution that prevents personal > identification. The technical approach to doing this through the use of > client-side whitelisting is outlined here: > > - > > Data will go to our servers and will be stored with our other server > metrics. We are aggregating domain names, and are not storing session > histories. These are submitted at the end of the session, so exact > timestamps of any visit are not included. > - > > Users who have disabled Health Reports will also not submit this data. > - > > We would use a whitelist client-side to only collect domains that are > part of the top 2000 domains (Alexa list of top domains). This prevents > personal identification based on obscure domain usage. We would subtract > the sites from the Adult > <http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Adult> category and add all > the subdomains of: > > - > > google.com > <http://www.labnol.org/internet/popular-google-subdomains/5888/>(e.g., > drive.google.com) > - > > yahoo.com (e.g., games.yahoo.com) > - > > developer.mozilla.org, bugzilla.mozilla.org, wiki.mozilla.org (this > helps us understand how much our user base is Mozillians) > - > > tunes.apple.com > - > > You can see the exact list here: DomainWhitelist.jsm > > <https://github.com/mozilla/loop/blob/master/add-on/chrome/modules/DomainWhitelist.jsm> > > - > > The data will only be kept for 6 months and we plan to revisit this > collection in 6 months. We’ll evaluate at the end of this period if we > should carry on collecting the data (the data is still useful and will help > further shape the product) or just stop. > > This e-mail is intended to make everyone aware of the data we’re collecting > in Hello in an effort to be as transparent as possible. We want make sure > people get the full picture of what we are trying to achieve and what we’re > putting in place to protect our users. > > Let me know if you have any questions. > > Implementation bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1211542 > > Technical documentation: > https://github.com/mozilla/loop/blob/master/docs/DataCollection.md > > -Romain > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
