Stacy, While people are talking about switching from Google, the underlying question really is how do we know we can trust Google? Yes, we have a signed agreement with them, but would we be able to tell if they are violating the agreement? If people are confident that we can hold Google accountable in practice, not just in theory, then that would make a difference in trust.
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Stacy Martin <stacycmar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, I work on the privacy team at Mozilla. In reading through these > posts, I see two key lines of questioning: > > 1) How is analytics tracking consistent with Mozilla's values? And > specifically, how is it consistent with valuing privacy? > 2) Why do we use Google? And can we switch? > > Because both of these require more detailed answers, my response is > primarily around where to find more info in the near future. We work hard > to use tracking in a way that is consistent with our values. It doesn't > mean we don't do any tracking. Our websites privacy policy describes the > tracking that we do and we're working on more ways to describe our > practices in more detail and in more places in an effort to be as clear and > transparent as possible. Some of what's in the works and/or under > consideration includes - user research, privacy blog posts, a new SUMO > section that will describe our practices in more detail than what's in our > privacy notices, and some ways to use DNT and/or Tabzilla to describe our > analytics tracking. I hope to have more to post soon and I welcome > feedback. > > On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 2:13:25 PM UTC-7, Florent Fayolle wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > > > Everything is described in this bug: > > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003391 > > > > > > > > To summarize, the whatsnew page sends an Ajax request to Google > Analytics each time the user clicks on its button. > > > > > > > > That's sad to see a webpage that promotes Firefox as the browser that > defends privacy (which it does) but that in fact tracks users' actions on > it. > > > > > > > > Someone reported this issue in this tweet (in French) telling (with > sarcasm) that Mozilla is not trustable concerning privacy, and I feel upset > about that: > > > > https://twitter.com/HTeuMeuLeu/status/461207250410164226/photo/1 > > > > > > > > Florent > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > governance@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
