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Firefox to commit suicide.

post #1 of 7
5/19/08 at 3:01pm
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Mozilla Stealth Data Project.

According to this link

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05...fox_data_snoop

Mozilla's CEO and VP of Engineering may be concocting a plan to use Firefox for collecting users's browsing history, and of course, make some cash with the info. Of course, they say that the data will be kept private but we of course know that data is NOT private and may be subjected to improper handling and may end up publicly available. *cough*AOL*cough*

So, what's your take on this?

Mine, of course, is just that I'll switch to another browser. Don't need more people snooping around my internet habits.
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post #2 of 7
5/19/08 at 5:26pm
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Originally Posted by moidock View Post

Mine, of course, is just that I'll switch to another browser. Don't need more people snooping around my internet habits.
are you searching 4chan and kiddie porn all day every day?

then whats the big deal......so what if youre looking for something and google isnt helping too much

bam here comes a pop up for what you are in need of



now, that aside, i pay 100 dollars for cable and internet, i want both the way i want since im paying my money for both.......so yes i can see what youre saying......so i dont think they should, but they are a business and ive yet to see a business care what their customers think, and make choices based on customers thoughts/opinions

money is what its all about


soulsaver~
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post #3 of 7
5/19/08 at 5:54pm
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Originally Posted by soulsaver_8229 View Post
are you searching 4chan and kiddie porn all day every day?

then whats the big deal......so what if youre looking for something and google isnt helping too much
The concern (at least with the AOL version) is that it publicly listed users' search queries, including names. So let's just say you're an attorney researching cocaine for a drug case and at some point you searched with the name of your client for a different case. It could make it look like the client was buying cocaine, and researching firms wouldn't hesitate to make that connection. That's the big deal. It's essentially unreasonable defamation of character
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post #4 of 7
5/19/08 at 6:48pm
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Originally Posted by Djembe View Post
The concern (at least with the AOL version) is that it publicly listed users' search queries, including names. So let's just say you're an attorney researching cocaine for a drug case and at some point you searched with the name of your client for a different case. It could make it look like the client was buying cocaine, and researching firms wouldn't hesitate to make that connection. That's the big deal. It's essentially unreasonable defamation of character
i dont think many, and id go as far to say any lawyers know about firefox, and if many do its by chance

i didnt think there were any other web broswers aside from aol/netscape/ie


but i see your point, but thats only to say that connection is made and that the research firm did something about it

also, it would be rather stupid the lawsuits to come of this "omg it was my son searching how to build a bomb!!"

oh well, we shall see


soulsaver
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post #5 of 7
5/19/08 at 8:57pm
wow never knew companies can do that... I know that back in Canada it is illegal for any company to hand over private data, not even if that government demands it.
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post #6 of 7
5/20/08 at 2:19am
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wow never knew companies can do that... I know that back in Canada it is illegal for any company to hand over private data, not even if that government demands it.
working for a major telecom which is also an ISP i can say that its not totally true, however for the most part it is. many of the major telecom companies up here wont hand over a single byte without warrants. it has its good and bad sides. it means that torrents and the users of them are nearly impossible to hunt down from such sinister forces as the RIAA. it also serves to protect the identites of many criminals who commit their crimes online.

the transfer of information especially private information is very touchy topic up here, especially in provinces such as alberta which take very strong measures to ensure that the average citizen has a high degree of privacy. its not universal though, and canada is not somewhere that total privacy exists.
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post #7 of 7
5/20/08 at 4:55am
If you read the article(s) you'll see that it only says Mozilla would ASK users if they agreed to anonymous data ebing collected...nowhere does it say you'll be forced to.
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