Interesting Mozilla project to make the Web even more transparent
December 29th, 2010 | Published on: News
Interesting Mozilla project to make the Web even more transparent
Nowadays, sales through the Internet are a common thing for most of the people, this transactions have significantly increased these kind of purchases, bringing as a consequence improvement regarding computer security standards to protect users data they provide in each transaction. Although there have been notable progress and this area, many people still have doubts when purchasing on the net, fearing that their data can be stolen, sold or used for any other purpose.
To vanish these fears, the star designer user interface of Mozilla, Aza Raski (creator of the tabs environment in Firefox browsers) has come up with a set of icons that acts as a privacy code, indicating the user the use that web sites does with their data. This coding is composed by thirteen icons that will indicate in Firefox browser whether the information provided will be used for other purposes, this will be sold or offered to private companies or even delivered to some kind of government with any court order.
The idea of Raskin and its Mozilla Firefox team is that these icons are shown clearly on the sites and, besides, linked with their terms of use. Another goal Firefox people have is to display this visual identification system on the browser automatically so that they can be read by computers. That is to say, that Firefox browsers display these icons through its interface, and always having by default the lowest privacy terms.
Although the project is still in its first stages, Mozilla has not been clear about when it will be launched in Firefox browser. If this project goes further by Mozilla people, will help the web to be clear and simple to users, this is so demand today due to the repercussions of the Wikileaks case.
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