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Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.

What we are working on now for Collusion includes:

What do I do now? Usability improvements to help you take control of your browsing privacy.
Too much data, what does it mean? Visualization improvements for when the tracker graph grows unwieldy.
How does this compare to others? Anonymously share your tracker data with Mozilla so we can build a bigger picture of who is tracking what.
What are the trends? A public API from the tracker database for mashups, specialized visualizations, etc. Track whether a site gets more or less invasive over time, how your favourite sites fare, and much more.

More information

Official Mozilla page

Collusion Official Site

In-progress website redesign

Preview releases of Firefox add-on

Source code for Firefox add-on (classic)

Source code for Firefox add-on (refresh)

Source code for website redesign

Source code for public database server

Unofficial Collusion theme song

What They Know The Wall Street Journal's extensive series on tracking.

Ghostery's research blog Lots of info about various types of trackers.

What's coming in Collusion 1.0 - video

A Morning Cup of Coffee - interactive teaser video about Collusion

Get the add-on

Latest released version of the add-on

Chrome/Safari port

Communication Channels

Weekly meetings will be Thursdays, 11am Pacific.

Issues List

collusion@mozilla.org Mailing List

IRC channel is #collusion on irc.mozilla.org.

collusion-dev@mozilla.org Development mailing list

Collusion blog

Collusion Sub-Pages

Wiki

Roles (RACI Matrix)

Collusion Strawman Proposals

ECUAD Wishlist

Etherpad

Collusion Weekly Meeting Notes Updated weekly

Collusion Data Discussion 2012-10-09

Collusion reboot meeting 2012-08-30

News and blog posts

The original Collusion blog post by Atul Varma: http://www.toolness.com/wp/2011/07/collusion/

TED video

The Next Phase of the Collusion Project David Ascher's post

Explaining Third-Party Cookies by Heather Tsang

Cookies exposed through infographics by Sabrina Ng

Emily Carr Design Team's Tumblr blog for all things (useful and other) related to the Collusion visualization.

Happy Privacy Day! An Update from the Collusion Visualization Design Team

Getting Started

If you would like to work on creating new visualizations, or modifying the existing one(s), we are working to add that facility with a workshop mode. There will be an announcement on the collusion-dev mailing list, and more information here when that happens.

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-Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.
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-For collusion updates, please follow the [http://mozilla-collusion.tumblr.com/ Collusion blog].
+Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.
-= Links =
+What we are working on now for Collusion includes:
-Code is on [https://github.com/mozilla/collusion Github]
+* What do I do now? Usability improvements to help you take control of your browsing privacy.
+* Too much data, what does it mean? Visualization improvements for when the tracker graph grows unwieldy.
+* How does this compare to others? Anonymously share your tracker data with Mozilla so we can build a bigger picture of who is tracking what.
+* What are the trends? A public API from the tracker database for mashups, specialized visualizations, etc. Track whether a site gets more or less invasive over time, how your favourite sites fare, and much more.
-Bug list is in the [https://github.com/mozilla/collusion/issues GitHub issue tracker].
+== More information ==
-Mailing list is [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/collusion collusion@mozilla.org].
+[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/ Official Mozilla page]
-Development mailing list is [https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/collusion-dev collusion-dev@mozilla.org].
+[https://disconnect.me/ Collusion Official Site]
+[http://collusionweb-development.herokuapp.com/ In-progress website redesign]
+[https://drive.google.com/#folders/0BwcRWQCdhJy9ZFlqYTBxV2l3S1E Preview releases of Firefox add-on]
+[https://github.com/mozilla/collusion Source code for Firefox add-on (classic)]
+[https://github.com/mozilla/collusion/tree/c2_fresh_start Source code for Firefox add-on (refresh)]
+[https://github.com/mozilla/collusion-website Source code for website redesign]
+[https://github.com/mozilla/collusion-db-server Source code for public database server]
+[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY Unofficial Collusion theme song]
+[http://online.wsj.com/public/page/what-they-know-digital-privacy.html What They Know] The Wall Street Journal's extensive series on tracking.
+[http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?cat=86 Ghostery's research blog] Lots of info about various types of trackers.
+[http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/11mv What's coming in Collusion 1.0 - video]
+[http://storytellinginnovationlab2013.github.io/donottrack/ A Morning Cup of Coffee - interactive teaser video about Collusion]
+== Get the add-on ==
+[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/collusion/ Latest released version of the add-on]
 [https://github.com/disconnectme/chrollusion Chrome/Safari port]
-[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/collusion/ Latest released version of the add-on]
+== Communication Channels ==
+Weekly meetings will be Thursdays, 11am Pacific.
+[https://github.com/mozilla/collusion/issues Issues List]
+[https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/collusion collusion@mozilla.org Mailing List]
+IRC channel is #collusion on irc.mozilla.org.
+[https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/collusion-dev collusion-dev@mozilla.org Development mailing list]
+[http://mozilla-collusion.tumblr.com/ Collusion blog]
+== Collusion Sub-Pages ==
+=== Wiki ===
+[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Collusion/Roles Roles] (<abbr title="Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed">RACI</abbr> Matrix)
+[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Collusion/Proposals Collusion Strawman Proposals]
+[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Collusion/Wishlist ECUAD Wishlist]
+=== Etherpad ===
+[https://etherpad.mozilla.org/collusionweekly Collusion Weekly Meeting Notes] Updated weekly
+[https://etherpad.mozilla.org/collusiondata Collusion Data Discussion] 2012-10-09
+[https://etherpad.mozilla.org/collusionmeetup Collusion reboot meeting] 2012-08-30
+== News and blog posts ==
 The original Collusion blog post by Atul Varma: http://www.toolness.com/wp/2011/07/collusion/
-= Roadmap [DRAFT] =
+[http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers.html TED video]
+[https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2012/09/18/collusion/ The Next Phase of the Collusion Project] David Ascher's post
+[http://www.simcentre.ca/blog/heather/explaining-web-cookies-single-infographic Explaining Third-Party Cookies] by Heather Tsang
+[http://www.simcentre.ca/blog/sabrina/cookies-exposed-through-infographics Cookies exposed through infographics] by Sabrina Ng
+[http://unofficialcollusion.tumblr.com/ Emily Carr Design Team's Tumblr blog] for all things (useful and other) related to the Collusion visualization.
+[http://www.simcentre.ca/blog/amber/happy-privacy-day-update-collusion-visualization-design-team Happy Privacy Day! An Update from the Collusion Visualization Design Team]
+== Recommended Reading ==
+=== Web Privacy Issues ===
+=== Collusion Development ===
+[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596514557/ref=nosim/benfrycom-20 Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment] by Ben Fry
+[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262182629/ref=nosim/benfrycom-20 Processing: : A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists] by Casey Reas and Ben Fry
-* Collusion logo for web and t-shirts
+[http://d3js.org/ D3 is the graphic library we are currently using for the Collusion visualization]
-* Standardize data format
-* Revised look and feel
-* Features
-** Enable blocking filters (off and on)
-** Show individual tracker info on tabs
-* Harmonize cross-browser versions (Firefox, Chrome, Safari)
-** parallel repos, contribute patches to each other
-** common look and feel, features
-* data safety
-** Data sharing opt-in w/ public-facing database API
-* Improve visualization
-** Better indicators for sites who are trackers - Q: why is this node red? independently verifiable
-* More and better discovery - idea: filters (Privacychoice.org)
-* website improvements
-** display data from global tracking db - for Collusion users add a "throw your coin in the fountain" feature
-* improved branding/product description
-= Guide to Collusion development =
+== Getting Started ==
-TODO
+If you would like to work on creating new visualizations, or modifying the existing one(s), we are working to add that facility with a workshop mode. There will be an announcement on the collusion-dev mailing list, and more information here when that happens.