966618 - Split Privacy & Security regarding Mozilla priorities & long term goals

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[antistress]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140112004002

Steps to reproduce:

This is a not a technical bug but a bug about Mozilla organisation, policy & goals.

I very like Mozilla action toward standards & smartphone ecosystem which means at the the end toward the user. But, as an old user (and evengelist) of Firefox (from the Phoenix age), it's clear to me that Privacy is the weak point of Firefox. 
From my point of view, DNT based upon third parties's goodwill is a joke, and we're still waiting for Mozilla to solve the cookie part of the tracking (third-parties cookies) : personnaly i'm waiting for it since June 2, 2010 and the excellent "Defeating the Cookie Monster: How Firefox can Improve Online Privacy" article from Jennifer Morrow [1]. More than 3 ½ years may seem quite long for a privacy issue...

I think there may be an orgasitional reason of this weakness. For Mozilla, it seems that Privacy & Security are always considered together. But it's a fact that when you have to handle two topics, one of them is always neglect regarding the other.

From Jennifer Morrow's Blog : 
"Privacy vs. Security
Privacy and security are related but distinct topics. Security refers to the prevention of material harm to the user. Avoiding theft, fraud, and data loss are all security issues. Browsers have been working to improve security for decades, prompted by increasingly sophisticated viruses, malware, and other exploits.
Privacy is a broader topic than security. It refers to users’ control over what they reveal about themselves online, whether or not what they reveal might lead to material harm. All internet users reveal some information about themselves to some sites, but the user has privacy if his discretion determines what information is shared with whom."

I wander if Mozilla would change its internal organisation to make Privacy a distinct topic which would finally mean for it a 1st class citizen goal.

I'm not sure that bugzilla is the good place to discuss that therefore please tell me if i have to use another channel.

Thanks !

[1] http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/defeating-the-cookie-monster-how-firefox-can-improve-online-privacy/

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Yeah, Bugzilla isn't really the right place for a discussion like this. I'd suggest the governance forum (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/), although I think most people will disagree that we don't give privacy appropriate attention. Concrete/actionable suggestions would also be more useful to discuss.