Tag: firefox
  • Jan 31, 2024 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Online Privacy, Social Media, Surveillance,

How Massive Server-to-Server Data Transfers Represent a Hidden Threat to Privacy

It’s well known that we are routinely tracked whenever we use the internet. Most people also understand that the primary business model online is surveillance advertising, whereby huge quantities of personal data are collected and aggregated in order to provide information for highly targeted digital advertising. While those facts are common knowledge, we still lack … Continue reading “How Massive Server-to-Server Data Transfers Represent a Hidden Threat to Privacy”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 23, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of April 23, 2021 Privacy organizations call for facial recognition to be regulated or even banned, as police turn to Clearview AI Privacy concerns with facial recognition technology have increased greatly with the appearance of Clearview AI and privacy and human rights organizations have taken notice. In January of … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 23, 2021”

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Privacy Talks | Interview with Tyler Ahn from Mozilla Firefox

This interview first aired on December 4, 2020 Timestamp Links & Questions: [0:48] – Could you tell us a little bit about yourself and the steps in your career that led you to your current position? [2:08] – Now that you are at Firefox, what do you focus on there? [2:40] – Media outlets like TechRadar … Continue reading “Privacy Talks | Interview with Tyler Ahn from Mozilla Firefox”

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Privacy News Online: Weekly Review | March 26, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of March 26th, 2021 Countries in the European Union attempt to water down privacy protections With the European Union’s ePrivacy Regulation in the final stretch, seemingly minor changes can lead to massive privacy implications. Current legislation allows for personal data collection by intelligence services, but not for companies acting … Continue reading “Privacy News Online: Weekly Review | March 26, 2021”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: February 5, 2021

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of February 5th, 2021 UK Police Chief falsely claims that end to end encrypted messaging “puts lives at risk” The Detective Chief Superintendent in charge of the Uinted Kingdom’s online anti terrorism unit doesn’t want Facebook to add end to end encryption to its Messenger app or Instagram. The … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: February 5, 2021”

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  • Sep 30, 2020 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Guides, Surveillance,

How Blacklight illuminates the murky world of ad tracking, key logging, canvas fingerprinting, Facebook pixels, and more

It is hardly news that we are being tracked as we visit Web sites, and move around the Internet. As this blog has reported, it’s the basis of today’s main online business model: using information about where we go, and what we view, in order to allow advertisers to offer highly-targeted advertising based on the … Continue reading “How Blacklight illuminates the murky world of ad tracking, key logging, canvas fingerprinting, Facebook pixels, and more”

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  • Jan 24, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News,

The Firefox Browser is a privacy nightmare on desktop and mobile

The Firefox Browser is not as private as you may think – especially on iOS and Android. Mozilla recently announced that they would be allowing any Firefox user a means to request Mozilla to delete stored telemetry data that is tied to said user. Mozilla maintains “strict limits” on how long they store this logged … Continue reading “The Firefox Browser is a privacy nightmare on desktop and mobile”

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Firefox Extensions are Temporarily Broken for Most Users – What Happened and How to Fix

What Happened? Today, many users were met with an error saying that their extensions were no longer valid and have been disabled by Firefox. This is because in mid-2018, Mozilla changed the Firefox extension system so that the extensions have to be signed by Mozilla in order to function in Firefox. Mozilla has a certificate … Continue reading “Firefox Extensions are Temporarily Broken for Most Users – What Happened and How to Fix”

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  • Nov 29, 2018 |
  • Jayson Q. |
  • General Privacy News, Guides, Surveillance,

How to clear your cache, cookies and web history in Mozilla Firefox

Your browser contains a lot of information regarding your past history, often innocent but sometimes embarrassing. Luckily it’s very easy to remove your cache, cookies and web history in Firefox simply by following these steps: From the History menu, select Clear Recent History.If the menu bar is hidden, press Alt to make it visible. From … Continue reading “How to clear your cache, cookies and web history in Mozilla Firefox”

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