Please follow up with this, if Mozilla does not understand anything short of the law this might be the only way to make them believe they are actually doing privacy a disservice.

I will, I’ll continue discussing this on monday with them.

And, in contrast to Mozilla, the Landesdatenschutzbeauftragte actually uses PGP email.

True. Americans tend to forget the EU has very different privacy and consumer protection laws. Either out of ignorance or arrogance.

This is not bad - Mozilla employees can then be put in prison.

It's also one way to do away with mozilla.

> It's also one way to do away with mozilla.

This is why I previously continued using Firefox and supporting Mozilla even while they put Google Analytics in their browsers’ addon menu.

But after this, I just can’t. A world without mozilla is now better than one with.

Collecting personally identifying information has to be opt-in. They don't collect personally identifying information.

That is for the Datenschutzbeauftragte and the courts to decide, if your IP and your entire browsing history combined is personally identifying or not.

But even if it is not, hopefully the resulting media presence is enough to either kill Mozilla, or to ensure everyone at Mozilla that considers this a good idea is fired.

They don't either collect the IP. They receive it, simply because a network communication has to take place, but they don't store it. And while they do collect your browsing history in fuzzied form, it's intermixed with other people's browsing history, therefore cannot either be used to identify you.

And yes, at the end of the day, it's up to the Datenschutzbeauftragte and the courts to decide, but I really do think that you delude yourself, if you believe this will go anywhere. They'd have locked up the entirety of Google and Microsoft multiple times already.

> They'd have locked up the entirety of Google and Microsoft multiple times already.

They have sued Google and Microsoft into the ground multiple times already. There’s a reason half of Google Photos and Facebook’s features aren’t available in Germany (including no face recognition).

Thilo Weichert, previous Landesdatenschutzbeauftragter of SH was constantly in the media due to constantly suing (and winning) against Google, Facebook and co.

Very unlikely - I am sure you can be identified too.

Either way it is ethically questionable.

Another example of how evil mozilla has become.