Light Beam is a Firefox add-on created by Mozilla to visualize users' online interactions and enhance awareness of data tracking. Originating from a project by Atul Varma in 2011, it was officially launched in 2013 to empower users with control over their privacy and data sharing decisions. The tool graphically represents user browsing behaviors and third-party interactions, promoting transparency in online tracking.

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3. What is light beam
• Light beam is a Firefox add-on that uses
interactive visualizations to show you the first
and third party sites you interact with on the
Web.

4. Origins of light beam
- Light beam begun in July 2011 as a collusion, a personal
project by Mozilla software developer atul varma
- He created an experimental add-on to visualize browsing
behavior and data collection on the web.
- In February 2012, Mozilla CEO (Gary Kovacs)
introduced the add-on at TED TALK about exposing online
tracking.
- Later in September Mozilla joined forces with students at
Emily Carr university to develop and implement
visualization of the add-on.
- Finally light beam was launched in 2013

5. Why Light beam
- At Mozilla we believe that everyone should have the tool
to make their own decision about their online privacy and
who collects data on them
- Light beam is one step in larger, concerted effort by
Mozilla & its partners to provide web users with greater
control and transparency of their own personal data.

6. Tracking and Privacy
- Not all tracking is bad, many services rely on
user data to provide relevant content and
enhance your online experience.
- Tracking can happen without the user
knowledge, and for some that’s not ok.
- It should be you (user) to decide on what
browsing data to be shared

7. SEE WHO’S TRACKING
YOU ONLINE

8. - As you browse, light beam reveals the full depth
of web today.
- It reveals part that are not transparent to the
average user

9. How light beam works
- Download and run the add-on in your Firefox
browser.
- light beam will create a record of event for
every site that you visit and every third part that
is stored locally on your browser
- it will visually graph these event to highlight the
interactions between sites you intentionally visit
and 3rd parties

10. - Light beam will continue to add to
your graph as you browse the web

13. CLOCK VIEW
The clock view allows you to examine connection
over a 24-hour period.