On 02.04.13 00:13, Jishnu wrote:
On Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:39:18 PM UTC-7, Axel Hecht wrote:
On to the actual privacy policy: I think there's a host of jargon and
technical detail in that part. I'm afraid that's not all that
human-readable, in particular for non-technical audience who's not
native English speaker.
Much of that is already in
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/legal/privacy/firefox.html, but I'd prefer
to make things better. If we could reword it to just not say "snippet"
at all, for example.
Example of too much detail: does is really matter if the region is
stored in HTML local storage instead of just stored locally?
Axel
Hi Axel,
Right now the privacy policy serves two purposes, to give people an
understanding of what happens to their data as well as give them detail about
how a privacy impactful feature will work. Your comments actually apply to most
of the policy and I'm sympathetic because I have the same issues with it.
Because of this, I've been actually rewriting the whole thing with usability
and context in mind (with UX, engineering and product folks involved) so we can
serve both the average user as well as the privacy conscious or advocate. I'd
love to have you involved as well.
Until we have a better framework, the policy needs to serve both purposes,
which is why this section has so much detail. Since location is impactful from
a privacy perspective, it's good for the privacy conscious user to know how it
works in reasonable detail.
We'll also be working on making sure as many folks as possible can access and
understand our policies - this is another place we should be working together
as well.
I've taken some of your input to try and soften the section a bit - my
recommendation is to get the feature up, provide a reasonably complete
description per below and work on the v2 privacy policy that would improve the
flow for the average user.
//Begin policy text:
Firefox's default home page (<about:home>) loads small bits of information which that we
think will be useful to you. We call these "snippets". You can see them right below
the search bar.
Once per day, Firefox gets new snippets from Mozilla. Whenever you see a
snippet, that snippet makes a request to Mozilla, so that we can count how
often snippets are viewed. This request to Mozilla sends the name of the
snippet and is securely transmitted over HTTPS. Aside from this and standard
log data collected as a part of any web request, snippets in Firefox does not
send other information to Mozilla.
To help display relevant snippets, your Firefox browser sends Mozilla a monthly
request to resolve your location at a country level using your IP address. We
then send that country level information back to your Firefox browser, where
it's stored locally. Your Firefox browser (not our web servers) will then pick
snippets to show you based on the locally stored country information.
I guess this is probably the other way around? The client requests, the
server filters and returns a subset of all the available snippets?
Aside from providing you with the snippets service, we use the information from
these requests to estimate what fraction of Firefox users click on each snippet
(broken down into general categories like Firefox version and geographic area).
We will not use any of the information in this request to attempt to identify
you or your activity anywhere else online, and we aggregate the info we receive
into these general categories as soon as is practical.
You can turn off snippets by following the instructions here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/How%20to%20set%20the%20home%20page.
The text looks better, but I think there are some grammar nits. I'd
leave those up to a native speaker, though. Examples would be "which
that we think" and "snippets ... does".
Axel
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