Re: Inconsistency: Tracking users with Google Analytics on pages promoting Privacy

2014-05-07 Thread Stacy Martin
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 b

Re: Inconsistency: Tracking users with Google Analytics on pages promoting Privacy

2014-05-07 Thread Stacy Martin
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 b

Re: Inconsistency: Tracking users with Google Analytics on pages promoting Privacy

2014-05-07 Thread Majken Connor
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 accountabl