Privacy and Tracking Protection in Firefox
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Surveillance is a growing concern in Europe, and Mozilla believes that privacy and security should be treated as fundamental and not optional in the browsing experience. That's why Firefox has introduced new features for tracking protection and private browsing. Do not track is not only a way to navigate the web, it might also become part of a new privacy law in the EU. We will discuss how this has been implemented in the newest version of Firefox, next steps, and why it's important to have transparency and control in our online experiences. https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/mozilla_privacy_tracking_protection_firefox/
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Privacy and Tracking Protection in Firefox
- 1. Privacy & Tracking Protection in Firefox Raegan MacDonald @shmaeganm François Marier @fmarier
- 2. the state of online surveillance how tracking works in practice how widespread is it? what can we do about it? questions & discussion overview
- 3. the state of online surveillance
- 4. the public-private surveillance partnership Bruce Schneier Relationship specific to US context Role of companies inside the surveillance eco-system
- 5. privacyinternational.org/sii the business of surveillance
- 6. trading data for “free” services surveillance as the business model of the internet
- 8. data brokers
- 10. the public-private surveillance partnership Governments & corporations have similar goals Snowden disclosures: PRISM, MUSCULAR What companies know, governments can & will know Any reform must take into account this relationship
- 12. how does it work in practice?
- 16. customerID=112
- 21. suckerID=319
- 26. suckerID=319
- 28. top 1 million 67% use Google Analytics
- 31. user agent timezone language screen size browser plugins system fonts
- 32. fingerprinting
- 45. 209 different third-parties 26 on more than one site
- 46. what can we do about it?
- 47. TRACKERS
- 48. political means
- 49. the EU's new privacy law ● Article 19, General Data Protection Regulation ● 2b. In the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, the data subject may exercise his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications. ● Could imply Do Not Track specifications
- 50. technical means
- 52. can't set any cookies can't fingerprint you can't see you in their logs
- 59. converted and served by Mozilla to Firefox users feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/tweaking-cookies-for-privacy-in-firefox
- 66. avoid having a hard dependency on Google Analytics developer.mozilla.org/Firefox/Privacy/Tracking_Protection
- 67. what about when you're browsing outside of private browsing?
- 72. want to help? report missing trackers reach out to broken sites
- 73. © 2016 Raegan MacDonald <raegan@mozilla.com> François Marier <francois@mozilla.com> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Questions? @shmaeganm @fmarier
- 74. photo credits: bruce schneier: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_Schneier_at_CoPS2013-IMG_9174.jpg say no to strangers: https://www.flickr.com/photos/_chrisuk/6500365853/ cookie on tray: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/jamisonjudd/4810986199/ cookie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/amagill/34754258/ happy cookie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/1080p/3080936724/ squirrel cookie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomitapio/3049686879/ copper cable: https://www.flickr.com/photos/theilr/8942861511/