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	Privacy and User Control 2011 Roadmap
	Owner: Sid Stamm	Updated: 2012-04-27
	The vision behind Mozilla's 2011 privacy roadmap is focused on users, calling for increased anonymity on the web, starting with sensible privacy defaults, giving users the ability to make informed choices about disclosing their information, facilitating web transparency so users understand how their data is being collected and used, and allowing for flexibility while maintaining sensible baselines for those who are not interested in privacy.

Vision:

• Provide Increased Anonymity -- users who don't want to be fingerprinted should still be allowed to surf the web with reasonable expectations of pseudo-anonymity.
• Start with Sensible Defaults -- where possible, default to non disclosure of information
• Provide User-Informed Choice -- provide users contextually helpful, timely, and understandable choices when disclosing information
• Facilitate Web Transparency -- help sites and service providers be transparent with their data collection and use practices
• Allow but don't require Flexibility -- provide users flexibility to customize their defaults, but maintain sensible baselines for those less invested in privacy

Operating Principles:

Mozilla uses a set of privacy operating principles as guidelines as we do work to grow the Web. Those principles that specifically relate to privacy in Firefox are:

Transparency / No Surprises 

Only use and share information about our users for their benefit and as disclosed in our notices.

Real Choice 

Give our users actionable and informed choices by informing and educating at the point of collection and providing a choice to opt-out whenever possible.

Sensible Defaults 

Establish default settings in our products and services that balance safety and user experience as appropriate for the context of the transaction.

Limited Data 

Collect and retain the least amount of information necessary for the feature or task. Try to share anonymous aggregate data whenever possible, and then only when it benefits the web, users, or developers

Themes and Goals:

Here the concrete goals are segmented into themes. Some goals may potentially fit into multiple themes, but are only identified here under the most relevant one.

Each specific goal relates to either Firefox (product users/web sites) or the ecosystem (standards bodies, other products' users) or both. They are annotated as such.

NOTE: these goals are tentative and more may be added or some may be dropped.

Improve Private & Semi-anonymous Browsing

Secure Network Connections

Deploy Safe and Rational Defaults

Enable Control of Tracking and Third-Party Sharing

Privacy/Roadmap/Tracking shows more detail on the third-party tracking work.

Enhance User Controlled Disclosure

Enrich Add-ons

Improve Local Privacy

Improve User Authentication

Research & Understand Data Sharing

Uncategorized

Roadmap

Links to implementation plan and progress:

• Firefox/Flight Tracking
• Firefox/Features