-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 While not as big a player in the identity area as others, below is Mozilla's Identity group response to a question about legal (or otherwise) requests.
Begin forwarded message: > From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarva...@gmail.com> > Date: 8 June 2013 15:11:44 GMT+01:00 > To: Ben Adida <b...@adida.net> > Cc: "dev-ident...@lists.mozilla.org" <dev-ident...@lists.mozilla.org> > Subject: Re: Persona and Prism > > On 7 June 2013 19:43, Ben Adida <b...@adida.net> wrote: > >> >> Melvin, >> >> Would it be correct to say that Persona would have no option but to comply >>> with operations such as "Prism"? >>> >> >> I will speak very precisely to what I know: Mozilla Persona has not been >> the target of these kinds of inquiries to date. If we did receive >> inquiries, we would put them through the same rigorous process we always do >> to determine whether there is a legal requirement for us to comply. >> > > Thanks for getting back. It's good to know Mozilla was not part of this. > To be fair I'm sure most people at the other firms did not want to > sacrifice user data, but probably felt they had no choice. It's worse that > this happened in secret. > > e.g. facebook's comment was a little scary: > > *They said: “We will protect you and your information better than any other > company in the world.” > > They say: “When Facebook is asked for data or information about specific > individuals, we carefully scrutinize any such request for compliance with > all applicable laws, and provide information only to the extent required by > law.” > * > What's concerning is that if Persona gains in popularity, it may become > more of a target. > > >> >> It helps that we've designed the protocol to limit the data we collect >> (without compromising our use cases, a sweet spot.) >> > > I think this is the way to go. I'd still like to see a "zero knowledge" > option, but perhaps that's something for the future. > > >> >> -Ben >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dev-identity mailing list > dev-ident...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-identity - -------------------------------------- Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRs+AEAAoJENsz1IO7MIrrjTYH+gIR/bxG4r7tU1mCPZF/YBLm mUO91zBMZHMBynwjRYRwRY8K/u37pvNafA8eAYttAnB7EzxDi8GbDO51fQmnov2l tF8NqBzx38Y8+G1OQRj6CacLSCRe7Wad37lDq9Gs6UnkZ7VnckxxvHmBwYBwySc4 0/pK0Kitdi/ifTth2S89EzyoZvcK3j8XQfHugvvO1zJCFq0WXOBeREgj3Y9Ma/ps xxjZ621rLh8nPNNhEGcvxDQObpYuJ+rcn77U1Sw4vvh322wBZeWy+1hVKs/wzsir Y0MdlYNAgTNM81D8AADx/LSUQzAi9uki1xAUfhRG8pQ78IIpEnmoIMggAhyGuOo= =kMbG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
