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Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by quickben on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:08PM (#15075458)
We can go into an amazing yet pointless semantical argument of what "privacy" means. But let's look at this from a different perspective:

I like your faith. However, if this change goes in, and the capability is there, it will get misused. Because, statistically that's how these things go on this planet+capitalism.

Re:Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a pri... by Ajedi32 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @03:33PM (#15075646)
Actually, the way they're implementing this, even if Mozilla decided to try to misuse the data in the future, they still wouldn't be able to, since the data itself is "sufficiently anonymous" (unless of course you want to argue otherwise, like the root comment was suggesting you do).

Or are you saying you're worried that they could _start_ collecting non-anonymized data in the future? If so, I don't really get that argument either. People always have the ability to change what they're going to do in the future, Mozilla deciding now not to collect this data wouldn't change that.