Mozilla Partners With Tor & CDT

Forms a new privacy initiative called Polaris.

In an effort to protect its user’s privacy, Mozilla has announced a new strategic initiative with the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) and the Tor Project, which they hope will support and advise Polaris projects that should benefit everyone.

As a result, two new experiments have been announced as well (under Polaris belt), focusing on anti-censorship technology, cross site tracking protection and anonymity. In addition to that, Mozilla will also start hosting Tor middle relays, which will make the whole Tor network more responsive.

As far as the other experiment goes, its main goal is to protect users but without penalizing advertisers that respect user’s preferences.

For a full press release, see the following post.