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They’re using Google Analytics, by default, in the browser UI and on their Websites, without opt-in or visible opt-out (it’s hidden in the tracking prevention s
by kuschku 8y ago
They’re using Google Analytics, by default, in the browser UI and on their Websites, without opt-in or visible opt-out (it’s hidden in the tracking prevention settings of the browser itself, and chained to the DNT setting).
That’s about as violating as it gets.
- gregknicholson 8y agoIf Google is collecting the data, not Mozilla, who's violating?
- paublyrne 8y agoAfter completing our mandatory and very boring GDPR training at work, I can tell you that it's Mozilla :)
- gregknicholson 8y agoOK. Can you tl;dr for me why that is? Is it because I've asked Mozilla to show me a web page, and the data collection happens as an automatic result of that?
- icebraining 8y agoYes, you asked Mozilla for the web page, and they decided to load Google Analytics. Mozilla is the Data Controller, and they asked a third-party (Google Analytics) to process the data of Mozilla's users (that includes simple visitors to the site), making Google a Data Processor. The Data Controllers generally have more obligations than Processors, since they control how the data is handled, and to whom it's passed.
- JohnTHaller 8y agoUsers are free to block third party cookies.
- kuschku 8y agoThey need to know that third-party cookies exist for that, though.
- icebraining 8y agoAre you accounting for the fact that Mozilla has a special contract with Google regarding the use of Analytics? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14
- kuschku 8y agoYes. That still requires at least a cookie notice in any case. But Mozilla doesn’t have that, and merely has a tiny grey-on-grey 10px tall "Privacy Policy" link in about:addons.
- icebraining 8y agoBut a cookie notice is not part of the GDPR, right?
- kuschku 8y agoThe notice not, the requirement is.