Hello, We are planning to update the Firefox Privacy Notice to better explain our data collection in pre-release channels. The current language says that these channels “may contain different privacy characteristics” [1]. While this is true and we haven’t made any underlying changes, we didn’t think this language was clear enough for people to understand the difference from release and make an informed decision to participate in pre-release. The proposed language explains this in more detail [2]
This nightly blog post has more background on the privacy measures we take when collecting data in pre-release: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/06/27/protecting-your-privacy-in-firefox-pre-release/ We appreciate any feedback you have. Thank you in advance. Mika [1] Current language: Mozilla’s pre-release versions of Firefox (which are distributed through channels such as Nightly, Beta, TestFlight and BuddyBuild) are under active development and may contain different privacy characteristics. [2] Proposed language: Mozilla’s pre-release versions of Firefox (which are distributed through channels such as Nightly, Beta, Developer Edition and TestFlight) are development platforms frequently updated with experimental features and studies. In addition to the data collection described in this Privacy Notice, these versions by default may send certain types of web activity and crash data to Mozilla and in some cases to our partners. Any data collection adheres to our Firefox data collection policy* and we will always be transparent and provide you with controls. *https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
