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Mozilla is NOT SELLING your DATA! (But they did mess up…) (tube.kockatoo.org)

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Right, that's the claim I saw from the Foundation over the weekend (yesterday?) - "selling data" is SUCH a nebulous legal concept that's different in many jurisdictions that it's borderline impossible to keep that language anymore.

...I'm not sure how completely I buy that, but I can see where they're coming from. I hope that the Mozilla Foundation will clarify what data is being harvested and sold to whom, but I've studied enough history to know that transparency fading isn't a good sign.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Yeah I mean I feel like they're just being overly cautious here (as lawyers often are) when in fact there is no real precedent to support that position. The law perhaps could be interpreted to stretch the definition of sale broadly, but in practice it isn't right now.

Frankly, I find it offensive that businesses would choose to pass that minute risk onto the customer by weakening consumer rights.