Advanced

Campaigners claim 'Privacy Preserving Attribution' in Firefox does the opposite

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on
The Register; By Richard Speed
Mail this story
Print this story

Privacy activist group noyb has filed a complaint against Mozilla over a "Privacy Preserving Attribution" feature that was quietly enabled in the Firefox browser following a July update. "Contrary to its reassuring name, this technology allows Firefox to track user behavior on websites," noyb stated this morning. Worse: "Mozilla decided to turn it on by default once people installed a recent software update."

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Mozilla

» Get new stories by e-mail: nightly or as they are published

« Return to the newswire homepage

  Related stories
» More like this

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.