Mozilla updates Persona’s privacy policy to no longer collect data it wasn’t collecting

Mozilla on Friday announced it is changing its Persona privacy policy… to reflect that it’s actually not collecting the data the document claims it is. Seriously, as the company notes, most web services nowadays change their privacy policy to increase collection and use of your data, but Mozilla is doing the former and not the latter. “In this case, you can rest easy,” Mozilla engineer Ben Adida writes. “We’re making the Mozilla Persona privacy policy better for users. We simply noticed that we claimed we were retaining data which, in fact, we do not retain. Specifically, we do not retain the list of sites you visit with Persona. We’re tightening the language of the privacy policy to state that explicitly.” For those who don’t know, Perso