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FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers (techcrunch.com)

submitted 8 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] swayevenly@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I am also weary of the data that they can collect especially after logging in but there are versions of the app and licenses where you can mitigate this by turning off certain data collection and not logging in.

As far as the Russian thing is concerned, I don't have much to provide other than what I read. Some of that is they have already moved the processing and storage of foreign data to Switzerland.