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Thursday, 30 January 2020

Avast axes marketing subsidiary following public outcry about selling user data to third parties


Earlier this week, news broke that Avast was using its free antivirus to harvest and sell users' (supposedly anonymized) browsing data to advertisers through a subsidiary called Jumpshot. The revelations came as a result of a joint investigation from Vice and PCMag, who also found the results of the data...

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