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30th January 2020, 07:35 | #1 |
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| Free Avast and AVG software flogs your data If you are daft enough to opt-in to data collection Avast and its subsidiary AVG are harvesting data collected from free antivirus programme if you opt into data collection. The report by Vice’s Motherboard built upon reports by Adblock Plus creator Wladimir Palant, who reported in October 2019 that the Avast Online Security Extension as well as the AVG Secure Browser spy on users, harvesting their information. Palant claimed the data which included a unique user ID, the page you visited, whether you’d visited that page before, and other information—could be provided to third parties, and suggested that Jumpshot could be a possible destination. For those who came in late, Avast bought Jumpshot in 2013 with the idea that it “provides insights into consumers’ online journeys by measuring every search, click and buy across 1,600 categories from more than 150 sites, including Amazon, Google, Netflix, and Walmart”. https://fudzilla.com/news/50206-free...logs-your-data |
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