{"id":8097,"date":"2014-02-24T16:41:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T15:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=8097"},"modified":"2014-02-24T16:41:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T15:41:32","slug":"the-privacy-panel-in-firefox-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/8097-the-privacy-panel-in-firefox-os.html","title":{"rendered":"The Privacy Panel in Firefox OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tweeted about the privacy panel in Firefox OS, which attracted considerable interest, so I\u2019m posting the snap I took of the feature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/image23.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/image_thumb23.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"579\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Holding the phone is Alex Fowler, Mozilla\u2019s Global Privacy and Policy Leader. The Location Blur feature is OS-wide, not specific to any app.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/image24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/image_thumb24.png\" width=\"404\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I find the feature interesting, because the ability to hide your location (somewhat; operators will still know which mast you are connecting to) is one that users deserve, but which runs counter to location-based marketing or data collection. Mozilla as an open source foundation is more likely to promote such a feature than corporations like Google whose business is based on advertising \u2013 having said which, Mozilla\u2019s income comes to a large extent from Google thanks to search revenue, which is paid for ultimately by advertising. It\u2019s complex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tweeted about the privacy panel in Firefox OS, which attracted considerable interest, so I\u2019m posting the snap I took of the feature. Holding the phone is Alex Fowler, Mozilla\u2019s Global Privacy and Policy Leader. The Location Blur feature is OS-wide, not specific to any app. I find the feature interesting, because the ability to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/8097-the-privacy-panel-in-firefox-os.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Privacy Panel in Firefox OS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[389,391,612],"class_list":["post-8097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","tag-firefox","tag-firefoxos","tag-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}