Announcing Data Collection Consent Changes for New Firefox Extensions
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Mozilla is introducing changes to data collection consent for new Firefox extensions, which may impact how user data is handled, with the community showing interest but not much debate.
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hollow-moe
2 months ago
which law is this supposed to comply ?
It's basically impossible to enforce as long as the extension can make requests and you'd need to wait until someone audits the extension to see it makes "unallowed" telemetry requests to report it. So I'm quickly guessing this comes from some kind of law compliance ?
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