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Kamala Harris and as chief technologist of the Federal Communications Commission Enforcement Bureau. Previously, Mayer served as technology counsel to then-Sen. The Princeton team behind Rally is headed by Jonathan Mayer ’09, an assistant professor with joint appointments in computer science and the School of Public and International Affairs. All data is stored securely and is deleted when the study ends. Users’ data is not shared with anyone besides the researchers conducting the study and their collaborators at Mozilla. Rally is committed to data minimization, meaning that it only collects the data that a given study needs. Rally is available only on Firefox, Mozilla’s privacy-centric browser, but Mozilla plans to make it available on other browsers soon.Īfter installing the Rally browser extension, users can choose to enroll in one or more active studies. That’s the premise behind Rally, a browser-based research platform developed by Mozilla in partnership with Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. But what if you could take some control over how your data is used by donating it to research initiatives dedicated to “a safer, more transparent, and more equitable internet”? Whenever you browse the internet, you can be certain that tech companies are quietly collecting, analyzing, and re-selling information about your activities. The research platform seeks ‘a safer, more transparent, and more equitable internet’
