Nearly a Year Later, Mozilla is Still Promoting OneRep
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Summary
In March this year, Firefox dropped its partnership with personal data removal service OneRep following an investigation into the company by KrebsOnSecurity, which revealed that its founder Dimitri Shelest also founded several people-search companies, including data broker Nuwber.
A few days after the story was published, Mozilla said it was looking for a new provider to partner with.
However, Mozilla has now revealed that the process is taking longer than expected, and it is still promoting OneRep to its customers, despite the company’s conflicting values.
Mozilla said its customers’ data is safe, and it will maintain the partnership with Onerep until a suitable alternative is found.
Researchers at KrebsOnSecurity also found that OneRep works closely with Radaris, another people-search company with a questionable history.