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Andy Meek
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It’s among the oldest adages in tech, the one about that product you think is free not really being free at all -- that you, in fact, are the product in those cases. The manifestation of that truism this time comes in the form of Avast and its subsidiary AVG, which offer popular antivirus products and which are in hot water at the moment over a new report that blasts the company for sharing your browsing history with major corporations.
The report comes via a joint investigation by PCMag and Motherboard detailing how the data that users opt-in to share, which purportedly is anonymized to mask their individual identities, includes granular insights that could help companies like Google and Microsoft learn a lot about you. Among the many ways this can happen, according to the investigation, is the scale at which this data is being collected, including Avast tracking user clicks "down to the second."
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Uninstall this popular antivirus software right now if you care about your privacy originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 19:05:53 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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