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And you need to submit complaints to your local data privacy official about this planned data collection which is not opt-in (and therefore violates the privacy

And you need to submit complaints to your local data privacy official about this planned data collection which is not opt-in (and therefore violates the privacy laws). If you live in the EU, submit a complaint to your local data privacy official, in Germany those are the Landesdatenschutzbauftragten and Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragten, for example, you can find the ones for Schleswig-Holstein here: https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/impressum/ https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/impressum/. Submit a complaint today, so that a legal process against Mozilla can happen before they implement this.

sgift 9y ago
Section 28, (6) of the BDSG (German Federal Data Protection Act): (6) The collection, processing and use of special types of personal data (Section 3 (9)) for own commercial purposes shall be admissible when the data subject has not consented in accordance with Section 4a (3) if (...) 4. this is necessary for the purposes of scientific research, where the scientific interest in carrying out the research project substantially outweighs the data subject's interest in excluding collection, processing and use and the purpose of the research cannot be achieved in any other way or would otherwise necessitate disproportionate effort. --- https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bdsg/englisch_bdsg.html#p0383 https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bdsg/englisch_bd... --- IANAL. Everyone may draw their own conclusions.
- kuschku 9y ago
  You quoted: > The collection, processing and use of special types of personal data (Section 3 (9)) BDSG Section 3 (9) says: > (9) “Special categories of personal data” means information on a person’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical convictions, union membership, health or sex life. This exception does not apply to behaviourial tracking, such as the list of the visited domains. This is not legal advice, I am not a lawyer.

sgift 9y ago

Section 28, (6) of the BDSG (German Federal Data Protection Act): (6) The collection, processing and use of special types of personal data (Section 3 (9)) for own commercial purposes shall be admissible when the data subject has not consented in accordance with Section 4a (3) if (...) 4. this is necessary for the purposes of scientific research, where the scientific interest in carrying out the research project substantially outweighs the data subject's interest in excluding collection, processing and use and the purpose of the research cannot be achieved in any other way or would otherwise necessitate disproportionate effort. --- https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bdsg/englisch_bdsg.html#p0383 https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bdsg/englisch_bd... --- IANAL. Everyone may draw their own conclusions.

kuschku 9y ago
You quoted: > The collection, processing and use of special types of personal data (Section 3 (9)) BDSG Section 3 (9) says: > (9) “Special categories of personal data” means information on a person’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical convictions, union membership, health or sex life. This exception does not apply to behaviourial tracking, such as the list of the visited domains. This is not legal advice, I am not a lawyer.