Privacy and Tracking Protection in Firefox

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Privacy & Tracking Protection in Firefox Raegan MacDonald @shmaeganm François Marier @fmarier

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the state of online surveillance how tracking works in practice how widespread is it? what can we do about it? questions & discussion overview

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the state of online surveillance

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the public-private surveillance partnership Bruce Schneier Relationship specific to US context Role of companies inside the surveillance eco-system

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privacyinternational.org/sii the business of surveillance

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trading data for “free” services surveillance as the business model of the internet

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data brokers

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online advertisting industry

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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

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how does it work in practice?

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customerID=112

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third-party cookies

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suckerID=319

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suckerID=319

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top 1 million 67% use Google Analytics

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user agent timezone language screen size browser plugins system fonts

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fingerprinting

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panopticlick.eff.org

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how widespread is it?

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209 different third-parties 26 on more than one site

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what can we do about it?

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TRACKERS

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political means

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the EU's new privacy law ● Article 19, General Data Protection Regulation ● 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. ● Could imply Do Not Track specifications

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technical means

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block network requests

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can't set any cookies can't fingerprint you can't see you in their logs

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converted and served by Mozilla to Firefox users feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/tweaking-cookies-for-privacy-in-firefox

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1st-party v. 3rd-party

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google.com v. google-analytics.com

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avoid having a hard dependency on Google Analytics developer.mozilla.org/Firefox/Privacy/Tracking_Protection

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what about when you're browsing outside of private browsing?

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about:config privacy.trackingprotection.enabled

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feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/tweaking-cookies-for-privacy-in-firefox

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want to help? report missing trackers reach out to broken sites

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photo credits: bruce schneier: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_Schneier_at_CoPS2013-IMG_9174.jpg say no to strangers: https://www.flickr.com/photos/_chrisuk/6500365853/ cookie on tray: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/jamisonjudd/4810986199/ cookie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/amagill/34754258/ happy cookie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/1080p/3080936724/ squirrel cookie: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomitapio/3049686879/ copper cable: https://www.flickr.com/photos/theilr/8942861511/