Report: Mozilla’s Lightbeam tool will expose who is looking over your shoulder on the web:

In the spirit of online transparency and for those paranoid about organizations watching your every move.

A new tool from Mozilla lets you monitor who is following your digital footprint.

Lightbeam, a download produced by Mozilla, the US free software behind the popular Firefox browser, claims to be a watershed moment in the battle for web transparency.

Lightbeam is a free extension available for download on Mozilla’s Firefox browser that promises to “illuminate the inner working of the web” it uncovers which third party companies are watching your online activity most likely brands and advertisers looking to share your data directly target ads, according to Mashable.

How Lightbeam Works:

When you activate Lightbeam and visit a website, sometimes called the first party, the add on creates a real time visualization of all the third parties that are active on that page.

The default visualization is called the Graph view. As you then browse to second site. The add on highlights the third parties that are also active there and shows which third parties have seen you both sites.

The visualization grows with every site and every request made from your browser. In addition to the Graph view, you can also see your data in a Clock view to examine connections over a 24 hour period or in a list view to drill down into individual sites.

Mozilla wants users who install the Lightbeam add-on to Firefox, to crowd-source their data, to produce the first “big picture” view of web tracking, revealing which third parties are most active.

Lightbeam initially will only be available for desktop browsers. Apple has reportedly rejected from its store apps by developers which incorporate “cookie tracking” technology.

The download the extension on your Firefox borwser, click Here