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Re: Netscape and privacy
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Chris Smyth) writes:
> It is true that a user automatically contacts the Netscape Web cite when
> starting the browser if he or she has not reset the default home page. I
> reset my home page long ago, but I do not know if the Netscape site is still
> contacted anyway. Nor do I know if Netscape is contacted when I quit the
> browser, or if elapsed usage time is tracked.
We are counting unique installations of netscape. We have no way
of mapping that information to a user name. We don't save any
information about you when you contact our web site. The Navigator
doesn't make connections to our site behind your back.
> The future Clark posits for his corporation depends on people adopting
> Netscape software for a wide variety of tasks. He wants the browser to
> evolve toward being a general multimedia web browser, mail handler,
> newsreader, and collaboration tool. Such a tool would handle large amounts
> of private and/or proprietary information and the creator of such a tool
> must be extremely sensitive to privacy concerns in my opinion. Collecting
> and relaying information about usage is potentially a significant violation
> of the privacy users will expect.
We are very sensitive to privacy concerns. A bunch of folks now
working here revolted against an effort to track keystrokes and
mouse clicks in Mosaic while they were at NCSA. One of those
folks was marca himself.
--Jeff
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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
[email protected] - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.