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Mozilla offers a new solution for monitoring online privacy.
Mozilla is launching a new paid privacy monitoring service called Mozilla Monitor Plus. A subscription will cost users $8.99 per month for an annual fee.
As part of the service, Mozilla will automatically search for subscriber information on 190 sites that sell data collected from social networks, apps, and trackers. If the data is found, the company will send a request to delete it.
Tony Cinotto, product manager at Mozilla Monitor, told The Verge that Mozilla is working with Onerep to scan and then delete information. Deletion requests usually take between seven and fourteen days to process, but sometimes information cannot be deleted. In such cases, Mozilla will continue to attempt deletion, and will also provide Mozilla Monitor Plus subscribers with instructions on how to delete data themselves.
The new paid Mozilla Monitor Plus subscription builds on the free darknet monitoring service Mozilla Monitor (formerly Firefox Monitor), which Mozilla first launched in 2018. As stated in the company, users of the free version of Basic Monitor can still count on free scanning of data brokers on request, constant automatic monthly scanning and one-time generation of deletion requests.
According to the developers, when scanning the data broker on the Internet, the user can find a huge amount of personal information, starting with the name, home address and professional activity and ending with data on the existing criminal records, hobbies or educational institution of children.
Services for searching and deleting personal data are quite common, but most users don't know much about them. When searching for such services, it is easy to come across fraudulent sites. Mozilla's reputation as a subsidiary of the open-source nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, which cares about privacy, may help here.
Mozilla Monitor Plus is already available for $ 8.99 per month, while the standard version of Mozilla Monitor remains free.
Mozilla is launching a new paid privacy monitoring service called Mozilla Monitor Plus. A subscription will cost users $8.99 per month for an annual fee.
As part of the service, Mozilla will automatically search for subscriber information on 190 sites that sell data collected from social networks, apps, and trackers. If the data is found, the company will send a request to delete it.
Tony Cinotto, product manager at Mozilla Monitor, told The Verge that Mozilla is working with Onerep to scan and then delete information. Deletion requests usually take between seven and fourteen days to process, but sometimes information cannot be deleted. In such cases, Mozilla will continue to attempt deletion, and will also provide Mozilla Monitor Plus subscribers with instructions on how to delete data themselves.
The new paid Mozilla Monitor Plus subscription builds on the free darknet monitoring service Mozilla Monitor (formerly Firefox Monitor), which Mozilla first launched in 2018. As stated in the company, users of the free version of Basic Monitor can still count on free scanning of data brokers on request, constant automatic monthly scanning and one-time generation of deletion requests.
According to the developers, when scanning the data broker on the Internet, the user can find a huge amount of personal information, starting with the name, home address and professional activity and ending with data on the existing criminal records, hobbies or educational institution of children.
Services for searching and deleting personal data are quite common, but most users don't know much about them. When searching for such services, it is easy to come across fraudulent sites. Mozilla's reputation as a subsidiary of the open-source nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, which cares about privacy, may help here.
Mozilla Monitor Plus is already available for $ 8.99 per month, while the standard version of Mozilla Monitor remains free.
