Mozilla Is Already Revising Its New Firefox Terms To Clarify How It Handles User Data

Mozilla is revising its caller Terms of Use for Firefox introduced connected Wednesday pursuing criticisms complete relationship that seemed to springiness nan institution wide ownership complete personification data. With nan change, “we’re updating nan relationship to overmuch intelligibly bespeak nan constricted scope of really Mozilla interacts pinch personification data,” nan institution says successful a Friday post.

The peculiar relationship that drew disapproval was:

When you upload aliases input accusation done Firefox, you hereby assistance america a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to usage that accusation to thief you navigate, experience, and interact pinch online contented arsenic you bespeak pinch your usage of Firefox.

That relationship has been removed. Now, nan relationship successful nan position says:

You springiness Mozilla nan authorities basal to tally Firefox. This includes processing your accusation arsenic we image successful nan Firefox Privacy Notice. It too includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence for nan intent of doing arsenic you petition pinch nan contented you input successful Firefox. This does not springiness Mozilla immoderate ownership successful that content.

“We’ve been listening to immoderate of our community’s concerns pinch parts of nan TOU, specifically astir licensing,” nan institution says. “Our intent was conscionable to beryllium arsenic clear arsenic imaginable astir really we make Firefox work, but successful doing truthful we too created immoderate upset and concern.”

Friday’s position additionally provides immoderate sermon astir why nan institution has “stepped distant from making wide claims that ‘We ne'er discarded your data.’” Mozilla says that “in immoderate places, nan LEGAL meaning of ‘sale of data’ is wide and evolving,”and that “the competing interpretations of do-not-sell requirements does clip disconnected galore businesses uncertain astir their nonstop obligations and whether aliases not they’re considered to beryllium ‘selling data.’”

Mozilla says that “there are a number of places wherever we cod and banal immoderate accusation pinch our partners” truthful that Firefox tin beryllium “commercially viable,” but it adds that it spells those retired successful its privateness announcement and useful to information accusation of perchance identifying accusation aliases banal it successful aggregate.

Friday’s position follows an update added to nan original Wednesday announcement to effort and explicate things.