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Avast announces that they are shutting down Jumpshot, their subsidiary that's been collecting and selling user data to marketing clients

Posted January 30, 2020 by Deimos

Tags: privacy, antivirus, avast, jumpshot, data, data collection

https://blog.avast.com/a-message-from-ceo-ondrej-vlcek

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Deimos (OP)
January 30, 2020
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This is in response to this story reported earlier this week by VICE Motherboard and PCMag: Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data (Tildes post)

This is in response to this story reported earlier this week by VICE Motherboard and PCMag: Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data (Tildes post)

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TheDrMonocles
January 31, 2020
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In other words, "we've been caught red handed, and we're really sorry. We'll do better next time"

In other words, "we've been caught red handed, and we're really sorry. We'll do better next time"

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1. dblohm7
  January 31, 2020
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  They're sorry that they were caught!
  
  They're sorry that they were caught!
  
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2. samueleyeam
  February 1, 2020
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  "do better" at hiding it. Ridiculous.
  
  "do better" at hiding it. Ridiculous.
Spencer
February 1, 2020
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"We're so sorry we made all the money off you and you found out! We'll be sure to hide it better next time." If the service is free, often enough the users are the product.

"We're so sorry we made all the money off you and you found out! We'll be sure to hide it better next time."

If the service is free, often enough the users are the product.

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