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.

Coordination Pointers

Weekly meetings will be Thursdays, 11am Pacific. Vidyo meeting room Collusion, dial-in details to be added shortly.

Code is on Github

Bug list is in the GitHub issue tracker.

Mailing list is collusion@mozilla.org.

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

Development mailing list is collusion-dev@mozilla.org.

Chrome/Safari port

Latest released version of the add-on

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

Roadmap [DRAFT]

Collusion logo for web and t-shirts
Standardize data format
Revised look and feel
Features
- What do I do now? Once you can visualize the tracking, tools and UI to help you take control of your data and privacy
- 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

TODO