Privacy: Mozilla to test opt-out telemetry collection in Firefox

Plex recently caused controversy by changing its privacy policy so users could not opt out of data collection -- although the company backed down after assessing the level of concern it raised. Now Mozilla looks sets to raise the hackles of privacy advocates as well. Mozilla engineers working on the Firefox web browser are concerned that the current opt-in system of data collection does not allow for the collection of unbiased data about which websites users visit and so on. As such a test period of telemetry which is opt-out is planned. See also: Plex updates its privacy policy --… [Continue Reading]