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Re: [privacy] Firefox 2.0 Releases Privacy Storm
From: Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:27:25 -0400
A cookie will record all your behaviour data when using Firefox and
provide the information free to Google, who can then use that information for their own commercial purposes. I haven't actually read the policy but I would assume they'd only use aggregate data. Why would anyone object to that?
Although, the feature does require an explicit opt-in, it's an
unwelcome trade-off for many Firefox users, who believe that there is no reason to tie-in phishing protection with providing free data to a billion-dollar multinational. Are we all children here or mentally incompetent? If you don't want to send the data to Google then say no. Take your business elsewhere. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine larryseltzer () ziffdavis com _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
Current thread:
- [privacy] Firefox 2.0 Releases Privacy Storm Fergie (Oct 26)
- Re: [privacy] Firefox 2.0 Releases Privacy Storm Matthew Murphy (Oct 26)
- Re: [privacy] Firefox 2.0 Releases Privacy Storm Larry Seltzer (Oct 26)
- Re: [privacy] Firefox 2.0 Releases Privacy Storm Dude VanWinkle (Oct 26)