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[Privacy Digest] Browser Versions Carry 10.5 Bits of Identifying Information on ...: In fact, that was the most common user agent string among browsers visiting the EFF website during the test period: Firefox 3.5.3 running on Windows XP. Notice that the operating system and browser versions are extremely specific and that the User Agent also includes the user's preferred language.

[Software news] » International Data Privacy Day and Google's Guiding Privacy ...: Like our design and software guidelines, these privacy principles are designed to guide the decisions we make when we create new technologies. They are one of the key reasons our engineers have worked on new privacy-enhancing initiatives and features like the Google Dashboard, the Ads Preferences Manager and the Data Liberation Front.

[Mozilla Labs] Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Privacy Icons Project Discussion: Tomorrow the Mozilla team will be holding a live session discussion of the Drumbeat initiative for privacy icons, a project aimed at giving users ample awareness of the terms of service and privacy policies. We seek to understand the .

[Aza's Thoughts] Aza's Thoughts » Is A Creative Commons for Privacy Possible?: If the client (Firefox or an extension) was allowed to display the icons with poorest guarantees on websites with no icons, then these icons shouldn’t supersede the actual privacy policy (because the client doesn’t know what’s written in it). Instead, the client should probably notify the user in some smart way that it hasn’t found the icons on the website which may mean (but doesn’t have to) that the privacy policy is not good for the user.

[Giveaway of the Day] Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily - Platinum ...: Internet Browsers for example, including popular titles such as; Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera, will generally store several data files that contain sensitive information related to your browsing history and behavior.

[Mozilla Labs] Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Elevating JavaScript Performance ...: Do you notice if a site's privacy policy changes? Do you take your rights to your own data seriously?

[Mozilla Add-ons Blog] AMO Privacy Policy Location Change « Mozilla Add-ons Blog: To make sure all of our websites use a consistent Privacy Policy, we'll soon be updating the link in AMO's footer to point to the Mozilla Privacy Policy that governs Mozilla's websites. We were previously hosting a copy of this policy .

[Mozilla Labs] Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Labs Night - Jan 26, 6pm: From the Seedcamp website: “Seedcamp is a programme created to jumpstart the entrepreneurial community in Europe by connecting next generation developers and entrepreneurs with over 400 mentors from a top-tier network of company builders. How many times have you read a privacy policy or terms of service document from start to finish?

[Meeting Notes] Mozilla Project Meeting Minutes: 2010-01-25 at Meeting Notes: In conjunction with the upcoming FTC privacy roundtable in Berkeley, will be discussing Mozilla’s views on privacy including engineering, organizational, and legal perspectives (and how those are intertwined here at Moz). Will spend significant time on working groups generating variables and settings within those for use in privacy policies across the web.

[Wired: Compiler] Warning - Webmonkey: Raskin and crew want the icons to supersede the written policy so, in that scenario, the written policy is trumped by the icons and the user retains their rights. Whether or not an icon can legally trump a written document is something Raskin doesn’t directly address, and, as one commenter points out, the situation gets much more complex when you start considering international legal systems.

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