Mozilla rewrites Firefox’s Terms of Use after user backlash

After fielding The user responds to the terms and conditions of its new use Last week, Firefox browser maker Mozila again wrote its policy to solve problems around the very wide language used before. Critics said that Mozilla refers to the terms that they are asking users for any data inputing inputs in browser or upload, which will be sold to advertisers or AI companies.

Mozila said that it wasn’t, it noticed New position The company did not represent the change in the way the data used. The company also said that the original language updates were not “driven by a wish” to sell user data and the power to use data use company was still limited by the rights right Firefox Privacy NoticeThe

Ay Number Of Critic Was Point Like the language, such as the following, in the new terms as the cause of anxiety (emphasizing us):

“When you upload or input the data via Firefox, you provide us with a useless, royal-free, global license for us to use that information To help you navigate, experience and interact with the online content as well as pointing with the use of your Firefox ”

Mozilla’s Product Chief Ajit Verma said in one of the way Mozila wrote on how Mozila interacts with the user’s data and wrote the terms of its use to more clearly reflect her limited opportunity Declaration Shared before the weekend.

In the updated policy, Mozila makes it clear that it is asking user data to manage Firefox and it does not own the data of the company.

Specifically, the new terms have been stated that:

“You give the rights you need to manage Mozilla Firefox. These include the processing of your data as well as describing the Firefox privacy notice. It also includes a nonxclusive, royalty-free, global license to make you request with input content in Firefox. It does not own Mozila in that content. “

Mozila says it has also removed the reference to the principle of acceptable use from its terms, as it has caused confusion.

Organization FAQ on online privacy Was updated to explain the legalies better.

For example, Mozila said that it could remove the blanket claims that it never sells user data because the legal definition of “data sales” is now “expanded and developed,” said in the Mozilla Blog post.

As an example of why the language was changed, the company points to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), noting that the CCPA “sale” K “is sales, fares, publication, publication, publicity, promotion, promotion, promoting, transferred, or otherwise, or in writing, or electronically, or electronically, or in the other, by a customer, or electrically, or in the other. [a] In exchange for “financial” or “other valuable considerations” of another business or third party business.

Firefox collected and shared some data with its partners, Mozila said, with the data that helps to help sponsored ads in the new tab page in the browser and sponsored consulting in the search bar, which is detailed in it Privacy NotificationThe However, the agency says that it is personally stabbed from data identification and only divided overall overall.

Users can continue Adjust Settings for sharing their own data in the browser, Mozila also said.