The cost of Avast’s Free Antivirus: Companies can spy on your clicks

Your antivirus should protect you, but what if it’s handing over your browser history to a major marketing company?

« The data is fully de-identified and aggregated and cannot be used to personally identify or target you, » Avast told users, who opt in to the data sharing. In return, your privacy is preserved, Avast gets paid, and online marketers get a trove of « aggregate » consumer data to help them sell more products. Read more…

Source : https://mashable.com/article/avast-free-antivirus-spyware/

Date : January 27, 2020 at 05:34PM

Tag(s) : Médias internationaux