A user privacy advocacy group in the European Union, from Mozilla He complained. The group accused Mozilla that the tracking technologies of the Firefox browser violated the requirements of the GDPR (General Data Protection Rights). Firefox allegedly tracks users without consent.

It’s surprising that Mozilla is the target of these kinds of accusations, as the organization does this regularly protection of users’ privacy rights It comes forward with the steps it takes. An organization called nyob introduced the new feature of Firefox. “turn browsers into website tracking tools” accuses.

Nyob finds the name misleading

The name of Mozilla’s new feature PPA Good Privacy protected association It was announced as. Nyob argues that this name is misleading. If European Union regulators support this view, Firefox could be forced to follow a different path and be penalized. AVG Under the rules, the company could be fined up to 4 percent of its global turnover.

According to Noyb’s statement, this technology, which inspires confidence with its name, is actually Firefox It says it allows websites to track user behavior, and that the browser does the tracking work instead of the sites. The statement “Mozillahas decided to enable this feature by default for users who have installed the latest software update. This is concerning because Mozilla is generally considered a privacy-friendly alternative to most other browsers, even though they are based on Google’s Chromium.” The expression was used.

Google had previously used similar technology Privacy sandbox He worked on it, but later this project got stuck in bureaucratic obstacles and failed. According to nyob, Firefox was also inspired by this project.