<story><title>Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.governance/81gMQeMEL0w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Vinnl</author><text>Note: &amp;quot;planning&amp;quot; means &amp;quot;reaching out for feedback about&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Also interesting: the method they plan on using for anonymising this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Differential_privacy#Principle_and_illustration&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Differential_privacy#Principle...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If that is not sufficiently anonymous, then please submit the reasoning why to Mozilla.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clarkevans</author><text>I think the burden here is backwards?  URLs may contain Protected Health and other Identifying Information.  If this data leaks SSL and could be sent to a 3rd party, then it makes Firefox an unsuitable client for a great many applications.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: OK. It&amp;#x27;s boolean flags (like use of flash) plus an eTLD+1 (example.org; not myname.example.org?).  Even so, I believe this tracking should be opt-in with a disclosure screen that explains exactly what Mozilla is recording. Informed consent is a practice we should be promoting, even if it seems unnecessary.</text></comment>
<story><title>Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way</title><url>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.governance/81gMQeMEL0w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Vinnl</author><text>Note: &amp;quot;planning&amp;quot; means &amp;quot;reaching out for feedback about&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Also interesting: the method they plan on using for anonymising this: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Differential_privacy#Principle_and_illustration&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Differential_privacy#Principle...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If that is not sufficiently anonymous, then please submit the reasoning why to Mozilla.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>claudius</author><text>Any submission of data requires the transmission of an IP address, which is personal data and necessitates appropriate protection.&lt;p&gt;I very much hope that the Debian maintainers (and hopefully also the guys preparing Fennec in F-Droid) will disable such data collection mechanisms, either completely or hidden behind an explicit opt-in instead of the opt-out suggested in the e-mail.</text></comment>