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Lenovo will pay a $3.5 million fine for preinstalling adware on certain laptops
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Lenovo will pay a $3.5 million fine for preinstalling adware on certain laptops
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6th September 2017, 20:05
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania
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 |  Lenovo will pay a $3.5 million fine for preinstalling adware on certain laptops Lenovo came under fire a few years ago for pre-installing adware called VisualDiscovery (developed by Superfish) onto new machines. Now that the legal dust has settled, the laptop maker has agreed to pay $3.5 million in fines to a 32-state coalition... https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/05/...ftc-complaint/ |
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