{"id":1236463,"date":"2025-03-03T11:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236463"},"modified":"2025-03-03T11:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:11:23","slug":"mozilla-reverses-course-on-its-terms-of-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236463","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla reverses course on its terms of use"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Mozilla has <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/products\/firefox\/update-on-terms-of-use\/\">issued<br \/>\nan update<\/a> to its terms of use (TOU) that were <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/products\/firefox\/firefox-news\/firefox-terms-of-use\/\">announced<\/a><br \/>\non February\u00a026. It has removed a reference in the TOU to<br \/>\nMozilla&#8217;s Acceptable Use Policy &#8220;<q>because it seems to be causing<br \/>\nmore confusion than clarity<\/q>&#8220;, and has revised the TOU &#8220;<q>to more<br \/>\nclearly reflect the limited scope of how Mozilla interacts with user<br \/>\ndata<\/q>&#8220;. The new language says:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq\"><p>\nYou give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This<br \/>\nincludes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy<br \/>\nNotice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide<br \/>\nlicense for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you<br \/>\ninput in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that<br \/>\ncontent.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mozilla has also updated its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/firefox\/faq\/\">Privacy FAQ<\/a> to provide<br \/>\nmore detail about its reasons for the changes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has issued an update to its terms of use (TOU) that were announced on February\u00a026. It has removed a reference in the TOU to Mozilla&#8217;s Acceptable Use Policy &#8220;because it seems to be causing more confusion than clarity&#8220;, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236463\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,116,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-lwn-net","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}