Alex Omenye
An European privacy advocacy group, NOYB is pressing Mozilla to enhance its user data protection practices.
Mikolasch, a data protection lawyer at NOYB, emphasized the importance of user autonomy, stating, “Users should be able to make a choice, and the feature should have been turned off by default.”
Mozilla’s Firefox, once celebrated for its privacy-focused features, has seen its market share dwindle compared to competitors like Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge. Firefox now holds only a low single-digit share of the browser market.
NOYB is calling on Mozilla to inform users about how their data is processed, implement an opt-in consent system for data collection, and delete any unlawfully processed data affecting millions of users. This demand comes after NOYB filed a similar complaint against Alphabet in June, accusing the company of tracking Chrome users without proper consent. The group has also filed numerous complaints against major tech firms, resulting in substantial fines in some cases.
