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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.

Advocacy Sept. 17, 2024

Can My Boss Read My ChatGPT Queries?

ChatGPT is becoming an essential work tool for many, and businesses are starting to embrace it too. But can your employer see your ChatGPT query history? How private is your generative AI usage? Here’s what we know

Xavier Harding
Advocacy Aug. 29, 2024

The AI Olympics: 5 Ways AI Showed Up At The 2024 Olympic Games

The 2024 Olympics in Paris was filled with AI and tech and you may not have realized it. Here are 5 of the biggest AI moments in this year’s Olympic games.

Xavier Harding
Advocacy / Mozilla News Aug. 8, 2024

Mozilla, Allies Demand Privacy Answers from Bumble

Mozilla and several other privacy, public interest, and gender justice organizations are calling on Bumble to come clean as to whether they sell customer data — and to better protect customers’ privacy.

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Advocacy / Moz News Beat Aug. 7, 2024

Update: A federal privacy bill, Mozilla's Senate testimony, and the AT&T Data breach

Senate hearing Mozilla testimony

Reem Suleiman
Advocacy Aug. 7, 2024

WhatsApp responds to our elections questions

WhatsApp answers five key questions about its elections response.

Nicholas Piachaud
Advocacy Aug. 1, 2024

Webinar: Platform Accountability & Global Majority Elections

Researchers and activists: Join Mozilla and the Tech Global Institute for a discussion about tech platforms’ conduct during an historic election year

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Advocacy July 31, 2024

The Internet’s Environmental Cost Is Literally Underwater

Tech’s effect on the climate goes beyond energy-intensive data centers. What other aspects of our apps and internet conveniences impact the environment?

Xavier Harding
Advocacy July 29, 2024

Mozilla Common Voice’s Latest Ambition: Getting Voice Tools To Understand Natural Conversation & Casual Speech

The Common Voice project is a Mozilla effort meant to make speech recognition and voice-based AI more inclusive. Users donate their voice by sending in clips that, in turn, helps voice-based apps recognize a wider array of user voices. The team’s latest foray takes things to the next level with Spontaneous Speech. Learn more about it here.

Xavier Harding
Advocacy July 16, 2024

Apple’s AI Offering Is Nearly Here And Touts Privacy Features. Here’s The Good, Bad & The Ugly

Apple AI is coming to iPhone, iPad and Mac. Here’s what to expect from the company known for the company on its new public beta release and full version later this year.

Xavier Harding
Advocacy July 10, 2024

When Search Engine’s AI Overviews Are Bad, They’re Really Bad — What’s The Fix?

AI overviews in Google search and CoPilot answers in Microsoft’s Bing search offers AI-powered answers to the questions we ask. Unfortunately we’ve seen how hallucinations can ruin these products’ efficacy. What’s the fix? We spoke with the experts.

Xavier Harding
Advocacy June 6, 2024

Deepfakes Are Getting Personal, Just In Time For Election Season

AI-generated deepfakes and the tools to create them are more prevalent than ever. Here’s what to watch out for during election year 2024.

Xavier Harding
Advocacy June 4, 2024

Don’t be Fooled by Meta’s Transparency Display: Election Integrity Risks Remain

Last week, Meta published CrowdTangle Live Displays to help users sift through Facebook and Instagram posts of candidates ahead of the European Parliamentary elections, which begin this Thursday, June 6-9.

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