The Phorm bug is spreading. The idea of collecting a user’s browsing history and flogging that data doesn’t just appeal to ISPs. The Mozilla Foundation, the people behind the Firefox browser, want some of that action too.

The Foundation is officially a tax exempt non-profit – but still manages to pay its chairperson $500,000 a year. Executives last week confirmed they are working on a project referred to internally as “Data”. This would gather anonymised data on a voluntary … Read More

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