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Mozilla Updates Firefox Terms Again After Backlash Over Broad Data License Language

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Mozilla Updates Firefox Terms Again After Backlash Over Broad Data License Language

Mozilla, the company that makes the Firefox browser, revised its Terms of Use for the second time in as many weeks on Friday after receiving backlash for using wording that seemed to grant the business ownership of all user-uploaded data. As per the updated Terms of Use, You grant Mozilla the authority to run Firefox. Processing your data as we outline in the Firefox Privacy Notice is part of this. Additionally, it comes with a nonexclusive, royalty-free, global license that allows you to do whatever you want with the content you enter in Firefox. Mozilla does not acquire any ownership of that content as a result. This clause's prior iteration, which took effect on February 26, stated By using Firefox to upload or enter data, you give us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, global li...

Mozilla Faces Privacy Complaint for Enabling Tracking in Firefox Without User Consent

The Austrian data protection authority (DPA) has received a complaint from Vienna-based privacy non-profit noyb, short for None Of Your Business, against Firefox maker Mozilla for enabling a new feature called Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA) without specifically requesting users' consent. This feature enables Firefox to track user behavior on websites, despite its comforting moniker "Noyb stated. Essentially, the monitoring is now at the control of the browser rather than specific websites." Additionally, Noyb criticized Mozilla for supposedly adopting Google's strategy by "secretly" turning on the feature by default without alerting users to it. PPA is similar to Google's Privacy Sandbox project in Chrome and is now enabled as an experimental feature in Firefox version 128 ...

Mozilla patches Firefox, and Thunderbird against zero-day exploited in attacks

The Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client were both affected by a major zero-day vulnerability that Mozilla released emergency security patches to address today. The security hole, identified as CVE-2023-4863, is brought on by a heap buffer overflow in the WebP code library (libwebp), and it can lead to anything from crashes to arbitrary code execution. "The content process may experience a heap buffer overflow if a malicious WebP image is opened. In a Tuesday advisory, Mozilla stated, "We are aware of this issue being abused in other products in the wild read more Mozilla patches Firefox and Thunderbird against zero-day exploited in attacks. Stay informed with the best cybersecurity news and raise your cybersecurity awareness with our comprehensive coverage of the lat...