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Privacy policy guidelines and Template for web apps
Releasing an app is much more than just coding it. You are providing a service to people and they trust you with their data. With the amount of reports of apps “calling home” and storing and sending...
View ArticleFive Potential Privacy Pitfalls for App Developers
Fighting for data privacy — making sure people know who has access to their data, where it goes or could go, and that they have a choice in all of it — is part of Mozilla’s DNA. Privacy is an integral...
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Login Forms over HTTPS, Please
Update: This feature is now also enabled in Firefox Beta, starting with Firefox Beta 50. Pretty much everyone who uses the web has used a password to log into something. And pretty much everyone who...
View ArticleRemaking Lightbeam as a browser extension
Browser extensions: a new frontier You may have heard of browser extensions — perhaps you have even written one yourself. The technology for building extensions in Firefox has been modernized to...
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Testing Privacy-Preserving Telemetry with Prio
Building a browser is hard; building a good browser inevitably requires gathering a lot of data to make sure that things that work in the lab work in the field. But as soon as you gather data, you have...
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Private by Design: How we built Firefox Sync
What is Firefox Sync and why would you use it That shopping rabbit hole you started on your laptop this morning? Pick up where you left off on your phone tonight. That dinner recipe you discovered at...
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Empowering User Privacy and Decentralizing IoT with Mozilla WebThings
Smart home devices can make busy lives a little easier, but they also require you to give up control of your usage data to companies for the devices to function. In a recent article from the New York...
View ArticleTwitter Direct Message Caching and Firefox
Editor’s Note: April 6, 7:00pm pt – After some more investigation into this problem, it appears that the initial analysis pointing to the Content-Disposition was based on bad information. The reason...
View ArticleImproving the Storage Access API in Firefox
Before we roll out State Partitioning for all Firefox users, we intend to make a few privacy and ergonomic improvements to the Storage Access API. In this blog post, we’ll detail a few of the new...
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