Learn what MozFest Wranglers look for in the MozFest sessions they select for the festival and use veteran Wrangler Alia ElKattan’s advice to submit an awesome session proposal for MozFest 2021.
Work your way through this data stewardship reading list to explore what the future of your data could look like if data stewardship were the norm – and what it may look like if it isn’t.
Later this month, Mozilla will release the second full length Internet Health Report, which looks at where technology is making our lives and the world better — and where it’s making things worse. More often than not, new online technology does both — makes things better and worse. Therefore, it’s critical that we constantly look at what is happening in tech and ask: how do we want this to play out for humanity?
The market for smart home devices is fraught with insecurity and privacy risks.
What can be done? If devices were designed with privacy, security, interoperability and sustainability in mind, things would be better. But how?
The Dialogue & Debates speakers series at MozFest aims to give participants insight into some of the most topical, critical issues and advances in the internet health space, from the perspective of key players from around the globe. We asked Mozilla’s Editorial Lead Kevin Zawacki, who organizes the series, to highlight a few of his favorite D&D offerings from past years.
Read our privacy expert's review of the Ring Doorbell Pro Gen 3. Our reviewer concluded the Ring Doorbell Pro Gen 3 is not a privacy-friendly device. From the moment you boot it up, you are locked into Ring's entirely cloud-based service. There’s no option for offline use and no local storage of any kind. Ring also has a well-documented track record of privacy failures, from employees accessing customer footage without consent to handing video to law enforcement without a warrant.
Can communities and decentralized networks create better forms of self-regulation, or do we still need centralized oversight? This debate explores the necessity of unlearning traditional regulatory models to make way for new approaches that reflect rapidly evolving technologies, shifting power structures, and alternative ways of governance.
