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How will the The Investigatory Powers Bill effect me using Firefox

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The introduction of the Snoopers Charter now forces wb companis to store browsing data for 12 months. I find this an unprecedented invasion of my privacy which is why I have installed Firefox. However, if you are forced to retain my browsing data I would like to know. My hope is that the charter does not effect Firefox. Please can you confirm this and if so make a public statement to that effect.

The introduction of the Snoopers Charter now forces wb companis to store browsing data for 12 months. I find this an unprecedented invasion of my privacy which is why I have installed Firefox. However, if you are forced to retain my browsing data I would like to know. My hope is that the charter does not effect Firefox. Please can you confirm this and if so make a public statement to that effect.

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Hi Mike4096, it's unlikely that Mozilla will make a public statement about this here in the support forum. You may find something on Mozilla's blog at some point. I'm not sure where that might appear, but this one seems like a possibility:

Open Policy & Advocacy Mozilla's official blog on open Internet policy initiatives and developments https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/


Mozilla may be required to keep server logs of your visits to Mozilla sites, if the law applies, which isn't something I've studied. You probably do not have serious concerns about your use of Mozilla sites.

But does Mozilla store your history of visits to non-Mozilla sites?? As far as I know, the only way that Mozilla would have your detailed history is if you use the Sync feature and have selected history (or failed to deselect history) as a category you want to synchronize. This data is encrypted and the key is stored only in your Firefox, so this data should not be useful to law enforcement unless they have access to your computer or know how to break the encryption. (Of course, if they have access to your computer, they don't need the online data...)

To opt out of other features that could share less specific data from your Firefox to Mozilla, see:

Presumably if other support volunteers know of a category of data I'm missing, they'll chime in.

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Hi Mike4096, it's unlikely that Mozilla will make a public statement about this here in the support forum. You may find something on Mozilla's blog at some point. I'm not sure where that might appear, but this one seems like a possibility:

Open Policy & Advocacy Mozilla's official blog on open Internet policy initiatives and developments https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/


Mozilla may be required to keep server logs of your visits to Mozilla sites, if the law applies, which isn't something I've studied. You probably do not have serious concerns about your use of Mozilla sites.

But does Mozilla store your history of visits to non-Mozilla sites?? As far as I know, the only way that Mozilla would have your detailed history is if you use the Sync feature and have selected history (or failed to deselect history) as a category you want to synchronize. This data is encrypted and the key is stored only in your Firefox, so this data should not be useful to law enforcement unless they have access to your computer or know how to break the encryption. (Of course, if they have access to your computer, they don't need the online data...)

To opt out of other features that could share less specific data from your Firefox to Mozilla, see:

Presumably if other support volunteers know of a category of data I'm missing, they'll chime in.