Advocacy Blog
A healthy internet requires an active, global community. Mozilla’s advocacy work brings people together from around the world to educate and fight for privacy, inclusion, literacy, and all principles of a healthy internet. A healthy internet supports the voices of people, including you.
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Advocacy Aug. 17, 2022In Post Roe v. Wade Era, Mozilla Labels 18 of 25 Popular Period and Pregnancy Tracking Tech With *Privacy Not Included Warning
Despite handling volumes of personal health data, most reproductive health tracking apps have opaque privacy protection policies and no clear policy on data-sharing practices with law enforcement
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Advocacy Aug. 4, 2022The RegretsReporter User Controls Study: Machine learning to measure semantic similarity of YouTube videos
In part two of this blog series, we dive into the architecture of the machine learning methods we apply in the RegretsReporter analysis.To measure the degree to which YouTube is respecting your feedback depends on our ability to determine how similar any two YouTube videos are to each other.
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Advocacy July 20, 2022Mozilla Community Places Full-Page Washington Post Ad Supporting AICOA
Today, Mozilla and its supporters placed a full-page ad in the Washington Post supporting the American Innovation and Choice Online Act. AICOA is a bill that levels the playing field and puts control back in consumers’ hands by stopping tech platforms from giving preferential treatment to their own products.
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Advocacy June 3, 2022Getting private? Mental health and prayer apps rush to revise privacy policies
Mozilla’s latest *Privacy Not Included guide called out 29 mental health and prayer apps handling privacy poorly. Since then, five companies have said ‘mea culpa’ and changed their practices. But the industry as a whole remains untrustworthy.
