> The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because, in some places, the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is broad and evolving. As an example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”
THANK YOU California for this definition of selling data, which is accurate, and representative of what people think of when discussions of selling data come up.
> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners
Ok, so that’s pretty straightforward. According to CA and other states Mozilla is collecting and selling your data. Which is exactly what everyone is upset about and means exactly what everyone thought it meant.
THANK YOU California for this definition of selling data, which is accurate, and representative of what people think of when discussions of selling data come up.
> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners
Ok, so that’s pretty straightforward. According to CA and other states Mozilla is collecting and selling your data. Which is exactly what everyone is upset about and means exactly what everyone thought it meant.