Surveillance is a growing concern in Europe, and Mozilla believes that privacy and security should be treated as fundamental and not optional in the browsing experience. That's why Firefox has introduced new features for tracking protection and private browsing. Do not track is not only a way to navigate the web, it might also become part of a new privacy law in the EU. We will discuss how this has been implemented in the newest version of Firefox, next steps, and why it's important to have transparency and control in our online experiences.
https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/mozilla_privacy_tracking_protection_firefox/
10. the public-private
surveillance partnership
Governments & corporations
have similar goals
Snowden disclosures:
PRISM, MUSCULAR
What companies know, governments can & will know
Any reform must take into account this relationship
49. the EU's new privacy law
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Article 19, General Data Protection Regulation
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2b. In the context of the use of information
society services, and notwithstanding Directive
2002/58/EC, the data subject may exercise his
or her right to object by automated means
using technical specifications.
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Could imply Do Not Track specifications