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Chiara Castro

Mozilla ditches privacy partner over conflict of interest

Promo image for Mozilla Monitor Plus, user data scan and removal tool for Firefox.

Mozilla has ended its partnership with Onerep, the main provider responsible for its service wiping sensitive data from the web, following revelations its CEO had links tied to data broker sites.

The company behind the popular Firefox browser launched Mozilla Monitor Plus—a new paid service that automatically scans the web to remove users' personal information in case of leaks, around a month ago, but has now taken the decision to pull it after news surfaced of Onerep CEO Dimitri Shelest's less prominent work.

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