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Mozilla To Amazon: Show Us How You're Protecting Kids' Data (cnet.com)
Amazon's product page for its new Echo Dot Kids Edition doesn't mention the words "privacy" or "data." Mozilla thinks it should. From a report: The e-commerce company last month introduced the new, child-friendly Echo device, powered by an Alexa voice assistant that was modified for kids ages 5 to 12. The $80 gadget becomes available Wednesday, along with new kid-friendly services called FreeTime on Alexa and FreeTime Unlimited on Alexa. Just ahead of those launches, Mozilla, the nonprofit behind the Firefox web browser and a growing political force in tech, on Monday said it spoke with Amazon directly about about the new device.
It asked Amazon to update the Echo Dot Kids Edition product page with specific information on how it uses children's data collected through the smart speaker. That way, parents shopping for the gadget could easily read Amazon's privacy information without having to dig around for it, Mozilla argued. Mozilla has already posted a petition on its website calling for these changes, but Ashley Boyd, Mozilla's vice president of advocacy, said in a statement Monday night that Mozilla is "heartened" that Amazon listened to its concerns. She added that Mozilla is pausing that petition while it continues to talk with Amazon.
It asked Amazon to update the Echo Dot Kids Edition product page with specific information on how it uses children's data collected through the smart speaker. That way, parents shopping for the gadget could easily read Amazon's privacy information without having to dig around for it, Mozilla argued. Mozilla has already posted a petition on its website calling for these changes, but Ashley Boyd, Mozilla's vice president of advocacy, said in a statement Monday night that Mozilla is "heartened" that Amazon listened to its concerns. She added that Mozilla is pausing that petition while it continues to talk with Amazon.
Mozilla, please go back to creating software. Leave the privacy advocacy to the professionals.
They still let javascript popups lock your browser so you have to kill the process. In 2018 they still allow those kind of cheesy attacks? I literally uninstalled it last week when some malware ad opened an unclosable window. Firefox is a terrible product, and Mozilla is incompetent.
Blahpooboob, please go back to whinging instead of giving advice to corporations as if they care what you think or will listen in any sense. Leave reality to its own blathered whims, not yours thanks.
You're soft in the head. Mozilla (corporation) is a $0.5 billion mega corp, which cuts data sharing deals with other surveillance companies, and even bought one called Pocket for its 17 million users + private info.
The non-profit Foundation is a good front to fool liberal tools such as yourself, but don't think Mozilla is any different from the rest.
Did they offer you ten dollars in amazon prime to shut up and go away?
Though they've come a long ways with Quantum, they can't outright crush Chrome in terms of performance. There's therefore no compelling technical reason for old Firefox users to switch back.
They have finally realized they needed a different marketing angle, and they're rebranding themselves as the alternative for people concerned about privacy. (Whether Firefox is really concerned about privacy is irrelevant, BTW. We're talking about marketing. And it's Firefox's best marketing play they have; There's no way that Chrome can honestly compete in that category.)
it was not that long ago that you were all praising firefox and sucking gecko dick because of firefox quantum and how much better it was (even without the old addons), how fast it was now, how you've all reinstalled it and made it your default again, and how much more awesome it was than your previous butt-buddy, chrome.
Not so much privacy as their SJW agenda. Remember, this is the organization that brought us Rust.
We need a real independent browser foundation. One that won't cuck themselves for search engines or ads in the browser. Brave, Palemoon and Firefox all betray their users in the end. We deserve better.
tomhath baby crying about SJW's again, cry into your beer
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Amazon should ask Mozilla why they shouldn't just ban Mozilla software from Amazon.com and filter any packets incoming to AWS from Mozilla applications.
Why is it that protecting kid's data is so much more damn important than protecting people's data in general? Reach the age of majority and suddenly everybody is just OK with corporations pillaging the hell out of your data?
That's not how it should work. Everyone's data should be legally protected.
Anonymous internet tough guy. Scary.
And how are you relevant (to this question, and indeed, in general)
Slashdot To Mozilla: Shut the fuck up and fix your softwares.