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Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
If you pay tho they're also harvesting your data. And if you don't use your service they make a ghost profile and harvest that data.
The only way to fully prevent it is to remove the profit-motive altogether.
Sounds fun!
Yeah I love it when people say "if you don't pay you are the product" as if paying for youtube premium, google one, reddit premium or spotify will stop them from harvesting your data haha that's how naive we were back when we thought data was collected only for ads.
Yeah their cozy relationship is terrifying considering Edward Snowden's revelations. It's such a simple workaround the constitutional right to privacy. Simply buy data from a willing company. And we wonder why they don't make laws against private companies' data mining... 🤔