Chris Remington ( @remington@beehaw.org ) MA to Technology · 9 months agoMozilla says its new Firefox terms don’t give it ownership of your datawww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up192file-text
arrow-up192external-linkMozilla says its new Firefox terms don’t give it ownership of your datawww.theverge.com Chris Remington ( @remington@beehaw.org ) MA to Technology · 9 months agomessage-square28linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-square melp ( @melp@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·9 months agoI learned a new term today that illustrates this move. Warrant canary. When a company disappears a promise it’s like a canary in a coal mine.
minus-square Powderhorn ( @Powderhorn@beehaw.org ) linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·9 months agoMany sites have done this over the years. It’s called a warrant canary because in the footer, they’d say “we don’t comply with law-enforcement requests” … then comes the warrant, and the wording is removed.
I learned a new term today that illustrates this move. Warrant canary. When a company disappears a promise it’s like a canary in a coal mine.
Many sites have done this over the years. It’s called a warrant canary because in the footer, they’d say “we don’t comply with law-enforcement requests” … then comes the warrant, and the wording is removed.