Note: I am no lawyer, and I am not very familiar with the law. I am trying to make sense of the tricky language that is Lawyer, so please, take what I say with a grain of salt.
Recently, a statement from Firefox has left people worried: its Terms of Use. The Terms of Use is brand-new, and they made a little "whoopsies". The problem? It pretty much stated that Mozilla could read all data you input into Firefox, a.k.a. your passwords, files you upload, files you view, including personal files, and more.
Of course, Mozilla had to instantly update their notices just 2 days after creation from user backlash. You can find the current statement under the "You Give Mozilla Certain Rights and Permissions" section:
What's tricky about this is that they use "doing as you request", but that is... tricky, I- I never went to lawyer school, and searching it up on Google tells me that it could mean doing something precisely as another party describes, and if that other party is Mozilla, that means Mozilla is double-crossing us! The best we can do is to wait this out and see what happens, or wait for a month to pass and Reject Convenience to make a video about it.
You really shouldn't be worried if you have a Firefox fork, or use Thunderbird, as these terms only apply to Firefox. If you feel worried, don't. The building I live in probably has toxic walls due to it being from before WWII, and yet I'm still here. Privacy may be hard to find online, but we are humans, and humans are strong. This is truly just a dumb update- if you want to stop this, don't use Firefox. That is simply how you don't comply, the only way you terminate this agreement. Live life well, and see you soon. l8r n00bz
Recently, a statement from Firefox has left people worried: its Terms of Use. The Terms of Use is brand-new, and they made a little "whoopsies". The problem? It pretty much stated that Mozilla could read all data you input into Firefox, a.k.a. your passwords, files you upload, files you view, including personal files, and more.
Of course, Mozilla had to instantly update their notices just 2 days after creation from user backlash. You can find the current statement under the "You Give Mozilla Certain Rights and Permissions" section:
Pretty much, Mozilla will process your data as seen in the Privacy Notice, but will now also include a fact that it can process your data, at your request, the content you input in Firefox. "This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that context", they say. Again, they can read all the data you input into Firefox! Why they need this information is beyond my knowledge, because that means they will use my passwords and cookies to "help" with Firefox. This is very broad, and can be anything from diagnostic information to selling to advertisers, and is likely the latter.
What's tricky about this is that they use "doing as you request", but that is... tricky, I- I never went to lawyer school, and searching it up on Google tells me that it could mean doing something precisely as another party describes, and if that other party is Mozilla, that means Mozilla is double-crossing us! The best we can do is to wait this out and see what happens, or wait for a month to pass and Reject Convenience to make a video about it.
You really shouldn't be worried if you have a Firefox fork, or use Thunderbird, as these terms only apply to Firefox. If you feel worried, don't. The building I live in probably has toxic walls due to it being from before WWII, and yet I'm still here. Privacy may be hard to find online, but we are humans, and humans are strong. This is truly just a dumb update- if you want to stop this, don't use Firefox. That is simply how you don't comply, the only way you terminate this agreement. Live life well, and see you soon. l8r n00bz
