Privacy and Tracking Protection in Firefox

Surveillance is a growing concern in Europe, and Mozilla believes that privacy and security should be treated as fundamental and not optional in the browsing experience. That's why Firefox has introduced new features for tracking protection and private browsing. Do not track is not only a way to navigate the web, it might also become part of a new privacy law in the EU. We will discuss how this has been implemented in the newest version of Firefox, next steps, and why it's important to have transparency and control in our online experiences.

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1. Privacy & Tracking Protection in Firefox Raegan MacDonald @shmaeganm François Marier @fmarier
2. the state of online surveillance how tracking works in practice how widespread is it? what can we do about it? questions & discussion overview
3. the state of online surveillance
4. the public-private surveillance partnership Bruce Schneier Relationship specific to US context Role of companies inside the surveillance eco-system
5. privacyinternational.org/sii the business of surveillance
6. trading data for “free” services surveillance as the business model of the internet
8. data brokers
9. online advertisting industry
10. the public-private surveillance partnership  Governments & corporations have similar goals  Snowden disclosures: PRISM, MUSCULAR  What companies know, governments can & will know  Any reform must take into account this relationship
12. how does it work in practice?
16. customerID=112
18. third-party cookies
21. suckerID=319
26. suckerID=319
28. top 1 million 67% use Google Analytics
31. user agent timezone language screen size browser plugins system fonts
32. fingerprinting
33. panopticlick.eff.org
34. how widespread is it?
45. 209 different third-parties 26 on more than one site
46. what can we do about it?
47. TRACKERS
48. political means
49. the EU's new privacy law • Article 19, General Data Protection Regulation • 2b. In the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, the data subject may exercise his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications. • Could imply Do Not Track specifications
50. technical means
51. block network requests
52. can't set any cookies can't fingerprint you can't see you in their logs
59. converted and served by Mozilla to Firefox users feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/tweaking-cookies-for-privacy-in-firefox
60. 1st-party v. 3rd-party
61. google.com v. google-analytics.com
66. avoid having a hard dependency on Google Analytics developer.mozilla.org/Firefox/Privacy/Tracking_Protection
67. what about when you're browsing outside of private browsing?
69. about:config privacy.trackingprotection.enabled
70. feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/tweaking-cookies-for-privacy-in-firefox
72. want to help? report missing trackers reach out to broken sites
73. © 2016 Raegan MacDonald <raegan@mozilla.com> François Marier <francois@mozilla.com> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Questions? @shmaeganm @fmarier
74. photo credits: bruce schneier: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_Schneier_at_CoPS2013-IMG_9174.jpg say no to strangers: https://www.flickr.com/photos/_chrisuk/6500365853/ cookie on tray: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/jamisonjudd/4810986199/ cookie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/amagill/34754258/ happy cookie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/1080p/3080936724/ squirrel cookie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomitapio/3049686879/ copper cable: https://www.flickr.com/photos/theilr/8942861511/