> "hey, I need to collect data from your system, and said data will be shared with everyone else publicly in our bug tracker"
But to answer your irrelevant question, California law would probably not consider Mozilla putting user data on to Mozilla's public bug tracker to be a sale of user data because California's definition of "sale" requires Mozilla to be getting something of value in return, but Mozilla's public bug tracker is free for anyone to access.
Consideration is the word used, and it has a specific meaning which involves a contract between two parties. I'm not at all sure how that can be mapped onto "using the data to improve our own product", and you're just vaguely insinuating that it might without any evidence.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...
> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our Privacy Notice.
Maybe your response is what's terrible.
Nice try but no.
A "sale" is a transaction between two legally distinct parties. Mozilla does not "sell" your data to itself and it does not "sell" your data to the public or to other users of Firefox either.
If Mozilla is concerned about the legal definition of "sell", there must be some other party involved. Wonder who that could be?
Where? I thought they were sharing this data with partners, not making it publicly available. See https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms...:
> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar. We set all of this out in our Privacy Notice.
[1]: https://mozilla.github.io/normandy/
[2]: https://experimenter.info/faq/general-faq
Am I missing something or does that law not apply to Mozilla giving Mozilla the data like you're implying?
Internal data transfer afaik doesn't matter. Using firefox collected data to improve firefox would amount to nothing, it's only when they give that data itself to a third party (in any ways shape or form as you said) that the law comes into effect.
The user collected data are things like about:studies, the new tab page, Firefox Addons, and anything listed here https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#health-report
This is literally language that had to change to describe Mozilla's actions in line with California's law.