Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform
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Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform
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#2So they don't have enough manpower to maintain features people actually want (like the JavaScript toggle in settings which Chrome apparently has) but they do to make things no one will use that will get shut down in a few years?
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#3The best way to put "privacy first" is not to share your data. This article title is arse-over-tit.
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#4Surprisingly difficult to understand what this thing is or does. Seems like you can "donate" your browsing behavior to science for doing studies in a kinda anonymous privacy protecting way.
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#5The best way to put "privacy first" is not to share your data. This article title is arse-over-tit.
But if your knowledge tree falls in the forest, and no one hears of it, then how do the data sound?
Somewhere between hermit-style hoarding and totally wide open there may be a collaborative sweet spot.
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#6I like that you can run your own versions of these studies, e.g. https://github.com/mozilla-rally/rally-study-01 to collect your own data. I think it would be a novel idea to make this the primary focus of the project, enabling users to see and understand their own data before donating it to research projects.
For example, I know that the study above is called "Your Time Online and 'Doomscrolling'", but I don't have much of an idea on how they plan to quantify doomscrolling via attention or audio events. I managed to get a reasonable idea from https://rally.mozilla.org/current-studies/your-time-online-a... and https://github.com/mozilla-rally/rally-study-01/blob/master/... though, so it's possible I just need to put in more effort as a user :)
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#7Whoever wrote this piece is way too close to... whatever it is Mozilla is doing here. There seems to be an assumption that users will be gleeful to throw their data at legitimate researchers from legitimate institutions doing legitimate work. What "data"? Browsing history? Identity? Something else? Why? What's in it for them? Since when was giving our data to third parties a good idea? There is literally no motivation presented here.
As a nerd I can read between the lines—clearly they have come up with some sort of privacy-preserving data collection system that is useful. But at face value this whole article is just saying "hey use Firefox and give your data to scientists for reasons we don't bother to explain because obviously it's good."
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#8Surprisingly difficult to understand what this thing is or does. Seems like you can "donate" your browsing behavior to science for doing studies in a kinda anonymous privacy protecting way.
It doesn't even sound anonymous. It sounds like they just audit that the partner aggregates the data once delivered to them. Some sort of pinky-promise.
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#9Surprisingly difficult to understand what this thing is or does. Seems like you can "donate" your browsing behavior to science for doing studies in a kinda anonymous privacy protecting way.
I agree. I haven't read beyond the linked page but my take is that it doesn't do anything about the data that you're already "sharing", but provides an additional mechanism for you to share data with specific parties in a controlled manner.
All this seems reasonable if that's the case, but the page is misselling it.
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#10Whoever wrote this piece is way too close to... whatever it is Mozilla is doing here. There seems to be an assumption that users will be gleeful to throw their data at legitimate researchers from legitimate institutions doing legitimate work. What "data"? Browsing history? Identity? Something else? Why? What's in it for them? Since when was giving our data to third parties a good idea? There is literally no motivatio…
I read it as "we're protecting your privacy by increasing the number of people who can monitor your activity on our browser." Presumably, the users will be well-endowed and tax-advantaged institutions who could have just bought the information from data-aggregators anyway. I'm starting to see a theme of papering over their technology products with a lot of modern art and hyperbolic language.
"Computer scientists, social scientists and other researchers will be able to launch groundbreaking studies about the web and invite you to participate." Wow. I'm about to make history with a browser add-on!
"Our first study is “Political and COVID-19 News” and comes from the Princeton team that helped us develop the Rally research initiative." Groundbreaking! College students can now make sure that I am adequately fact-checked if I err from the path of truth.