Re: Intent to Ship: 3rd Party Install Tracking

2015-03-19 Thread Mark Finkle
Valid point On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote: > Mark Finkle schrieb: > >> and maybe we should use it >> for the FHR persistent ID since it's the same across installs and >> profile-resets >> > > I think it's a *very* bad idea privacy-wise to use the same ID across > different

Re: Intent to Ship: 3rd Party Install Tracking

2015-03-19 Thread Robert Kaiser
Mark Finkle schrieb: and maybe we should use it for the FHR persistent ID since it's the same across installs and profile-resets I think it's a *very* bad idea privacy-wise to use the same ID across different data collection services as that opens up all the scary cross-system-user-tracking s

Re: Intent to Ship: 3rd Party Install Tracking

2015-03-18 Thread Mark Finkle
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:49 PM, wrote: > > It seems to me that when doing something as privacy sensitive as this we > should probably figure out exactly what data we want to collect *first*. > Then, if and only if we can't collect it using in-house code, we should > consider going with a third p

Re: Intent to Ship: 3rd Party Install Tracking

2015-03-18 Thread Mark Finkle
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:49 PM, wrote: > On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 2:29:32 PM UTC-4, Mark Finkle wrote: > > There are good reasons for wanting to collect the data. Our marketing and > > growth goals for 2015 will require spending non-trivial amounts of money. > > The data will help us spen

Re: Intent to Ship: 3rd Party Install Tracking

2015-03-18 Thread kgupta
On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 2:29:32 PM UTC-4, Mark Finkle wrote: > There are good reasons for wanting to collect the data. Our marketing and > growth goals for 2015 will require spending non-trivial amounts of money. > The data will help us spend the money responsibly and efficiently. > We sti

Intent to Ship: 3rd Party Install Tracking

2015-03-18 Thread Mark Finkle
We wanted to start some transparency around a new integration coming to Firefox on Mobile [1]. We are planning to integrate a 3rd party install tracking SDK from a company called Adjust [2] which will send data, possibly device identity data [3], to a 3rd party server. We don't do this very much at