Post #1765263

Reminder: looking at a project’s privacy policy is a starting point when figuring out what they do with your data. It rarely provides reliable answers by itself. I’ve seen plenty of projects looking better in their privacy policy than they actually were. They will “forget” some things that they do or they will use language that downplays the impact. Also common: claiming to anonymize the data when it is actually pseudonymized. The former would mean removing any ties to your identity from the data (very difficult to get right actually), the latter merely replaces your name by a randomly generated identifier. As far as your privacy is concerned, these two approaches are worlds apart. Firefox appears to be the opposite. People get very upset about their privacy policy which seems to be no better than Google’s or Facebook’s or whatever. It’s not that Firefox doesn’t do anything wrong, but from what I can tell their privacy policy sounds way worse than things really are. I guess that’s what you get when you put lawyers in charge and task them with covering for every eventuality?