Mozilla updates Firefox terms again after backlash over broad data license language

Mozilla is revising its new Terms of Use for Firefox introduced on Wednesday following criticisms over language that seemed to give the company broad ownership over user data.

With the change, "we're updating the language to more clearly reflect the limited scope of how Mozilla interacts with user data," the company says in a Friday post.

Last Wednesday, Mozilla released a "Terms of Use" document for Firefox, a first for the open-source browser. That might sound like business as usual, but the Terms of Use include a concerning section that appears to give Mozilla broad permission to use your data, including "a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox."

To add insult to injury, Mozilla also completely removed a section of its "Firefox FAQs" that included a promise to never sell user data. You can still see that section in snapshots on the Wayback Machine, but it's been wiped from the current version of the page.

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