Mozilla Proposes Principles To Protect Users From Harmful Government Surveillance

The FBI shouldn't require any technology company to create codes that undermine security and introduce additional vulnerabilities, Mozilla Chief Legal and Business Officer Denelle Dixon-Thayer wrote in a blog post Thursday. She said that government surveillance can cause "massive harm" to user security and the Apple case is the latest example. Instead, she proposed that governments adopt basic principles to guide the scope of their surveillance activities. Governments should strengthen user security and minimize the impact of surveillance on user trust and security, and such surveillance activities should have "empowered, independent and transparent oversight," Dixon-Thayer wrote. She asked users to share the principles and encourage policymakers and governments to protect users from what she sees as surveillance harms.