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Sep 24, 2026
Jim LoveHOST
And if anyone doubts that resentment towards big tech is real, Mozilla is betting it can build an advertising campaign around it.
Jim LoveHOST
The Mozilla Foundation is putting up posters across New York, taking aim at Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos.
Jim LoveHOST
It's promoting its technology fellowship program by contrasting the billionaire's priorities with projects designed to benefit the public.
Jim LoveHOST
One poster takes a swipe at Meta's camera-equipped glasses.
Brian Dean WrightHOST
It's a national security concern, in other words.
Brian Dean WrightHOST
And that is certainly true, but also it's a little bit ironic, because we'll recall, if you've listened to this podcast for a few years, that these same U.S. car companies in Detroit collect and resell this exact same data themselves, as the Mozilla Foundation and Fortune magazine have reported.
Brian Dean WrightHOST
Why are taps on wheels necessary? It's how Fortune has described it with this data going from the Detroit car companies to basically anybody who wants to buy that data, including data brokers and data brokers abroad.
Brian Dean WrightHOST
In any case, we'll be watching to see whether President Trump gives on this issue of Chinese-made cars in America or not.
Carolyn WoodardHOST
And they are also one of the founding members of Humanity AI, which I mentioned maybe a couple months ago.
Carolyn WoodardHOST
Uh, the coalition of foundation leaders include, uh, Doris Duke Foundation, Ford Foundation, Lumina, Kapor, Ca-- uh, the MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Packard Foundation, and the Seigel, um, Family Endowment.
Carolyn WoodardHOST
And those, you know, like other founders are joining them, but they are, um...
Carolyn WoodardHOST
This is a collective, uh, it's called Humanity AI.
Carmi LevyGUEST
So The Verge did a deep dive on a number of investigations in recent years that have shown just how deep the automotive industry has gone in terms of building vehicles that collect information, uh, and then the fact that they share them with third-party, uh, vendors, uh, and they make a ton of money from it.
Carmi LevyGUEST
So, uh, the Mozilla Foundation showed that all automakers have terrible, uh, privacy and security practices.
Carmi LevyGUEST
It's impossible to know what you're getting into when you buy the vehicle, when you sign up for services like, say, OnStar.
Carmi LevyGUEST
And in fact, uh, General Motors was investigated by the FTC in the US for five years over these practices.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
The scope and speed of AI hacking is superhuman.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
After gaining access to Claude Mythos, the Mozilla Foundation's rate of fixing bugs in its Firefox browser increased by 14x due to AI's ability to identify bugs.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
Mozilla used AI to find and fix bugs, but an attacking AI could find those bugs and use them to gain access.
Type Three AudioNARRATOR
There's an image here.
Type III AudioNARRATOR
The scope and speed of AI hacking is superhuman.
Type III AudioNARRATOR
After gaining access to Claude Mythos, the Mozilla Foundation's rate of fixing bugs in its Firefox browser increased by 14x due to AI's ability to identify bugs.
Type III AudioNARRATOR
Mozilla used AI to find and fix bugs, but an attacking AI could find those bugs and use them to gain access.
Type III AudioNARRATOR
There's an image here.
Hala HannaHOST
And then she ran a newsroom startup with the motto, Big Tech is watching you, we are watching Big Tech.
Hala HannaHOST
Now she leads the Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit behind Firefox, still fighting to keep the Internet in the hands of those who use it.
Hala HannaHOST
Her thesis is a bold one.
Hala HannaHOST
You don't resist bad tech only by critiquing it.
Nabiha SyedGUEST
It's not to say that the corporations are wrong, but they have a perspective and they have a goal, which is profit.
Nabiha SyedGUEST
And any information coming from them has to be contextualized with that.
Nabiha SyedGUEST
Of course, Mozilla Foundation, you know, owns Mozilla Corporation.
Nabiha SyedGUEST
We're very friendly towards for profits.
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