On 7/25/12 3:33 PM, Winston Bowden wrote:
To do so, we would like to provide users with the ability to enter their mobile phone number to receive a text to their phone containing the download link. Although a one-time use, we’d need to keep their phone number to protect against abuse (someone entering the same number multiple times). We’d also like to include a checkbox for users who would like to opt-in to ongoing SMS messages from Mozilla.
Overall, this sounds pretty reasonable. But I'd want to ask a couple of questions:
1) How reliable/trustworthy are such vendors? I never opt-in to such things (and, conversely, always opt-out :), but have noticed what seems like a trend of getting unwanted spam long afterwards. I can only assume this is a result of sly/aggressive marketers thinking I've forgotten or changed my mind. It's almost pure upside from them to ignore my choice.
2) Related, have we considered keeping this list inside Mozilla, and/or using technical measures like hashing to limit its risk?
3) How long are these numbers kept for anti-abuse? Seems like limiting it to a few days/weeks (or more if an explicit stop-doing-this is requested) would be sufficient.
Proposed Update to Firefox Privacy Policy – [...]Unless you opt-in to ongoing SMS messaging, the mobile phone number you input on the website will be used and stored only for the purpose of sending this one-time message and to provide abuse blocking, where available.
If a user does not opt-in to ongoing SMS, will the download message still be tracking if they perform the actual download?
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