Is It Time to Ditch Firefox?

Surveillance Report

Mar 04, 2025•34 min•Ep. 216

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Episode description

Episode 216: Mozilla's first ever Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for Firefox raises some concern, Sweden and France introduce their own efforts to backdoor encryption, updates from a number of FOSS superstars, and more!

Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.

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(00:00) Introduction

(00:21) Sponsor: EasyOptOuts

(01:43) Correction

(02:29) Highlight Story (Mozilla ToS)

(15:25) Data Breaches

(17:37) Companies

(20:10) Research

(22:15) Politics

(26:08) FOSS

(28:10) Misfits