… I mean, WTF. Mozilla, you had one job …

  • gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Ok, I misremembered it says “pay” for the aggregate results, not sell.

    Our DAP deployment is jointly run by Mozilla and ISRG. Privacy is lost if the two organizations collude to reveal individual values. We safeguard against this in several ways: trust in both organizations, joint agreements, and operational practices.

    A full solution will require that advertisers — or their delegated measurement provider — receive reports from browsers, select a service, submit a batch of reports, and pay for the aggregation results, choosing from a list of approved operators.

    For the trial, the results for each task will be sent to Mozilla’s telemetry systems, which will be used to access aggregated statistics.

    So it doesn’t say ISRG is going sell data, but the “full solution” will have other operators that get payed, i.e. they’re going to sell the aggregate data. Also, they envision multiple such operators, all of which it seems need to be “trusted”.

    https://github.com/mozilla/explainers/tree/main/ppa-experiment#end-user-benefit

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      4 months ago

      Ah gotcha, thanks for bringing in the source - that does come down to the ISRG selling it. The thing I’d missed in your quote is that it’s referring to aggregate data. So yeah, how that meshes with what I’ve read is that the ISRG won’t be able to view user data, but indeed the ad performance data would be sold to advertisers.