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Google Will Delete Browsing Records to Settle 'Incognito Mode' Lawsuit
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-delete-browsing-data-settle-privacy-lawsuit-incognito-mode-2024-4

Google will delete browsing records to settle 'incognito mode' lawsuit
As part of a lawsuit settlement about its "incognito" mode, Google will erase billions of data records, new court filings disclose.

Once again I’m asking you to not use browsers from the ad company
https://scholar.social/@ashedryden/112197489830332797

Once again I’m asking you to not use browsers from the ad company
https://scholar.social/@ashedryden/112197489830332797

>"The FTC also charges that Avast deceived users by claiming that the software would protect consumers’ privacy by blocking third party tracking, but failed to adequately inform consumers that it would sell their detailed, re-identifiable browsing data"
Wow, what a shocker...

Well, looks like I need a new antivirus. Why did I think they were any different?
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/ftc-bans-avast-selling-customers-sensitive-browsing-data/

FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers | TechCrunch
Avast closed its Jumpshot subsidiary in 2020 after the antivirus giant was caught selling the browsing activity of millions of its customers.

"The Federal Trade Commission will require software provider Avast to pay $16.5 million and prohibit the company from selling or licensing any web browsing data for advertising purposes to settle charges that the company and its subsidiaries sold such information to third parties after promising that its products would protect consumers from online tracking."
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/ftc-order-will-ban-avast-selling-browsing-data-advertising-purposes-require-it-pay-165-million-over

I've finally started browsing #Piketty's Capital. It's quite accessible. You can sample a few pages here and there depending on your interest. The first 30 or 100 pages of introductory chapters probably give a better general idea of #macroeconomics than some of the textbooks most used in

The US FTC says Avast needs to pay $16.5M and stop selling web browsing data for ads to settle charges that the UK company misrepresented how it uses such data (Ismail Shakil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-ftc-

#Avast Antivirus has been collecting and selling their users’ browsing information 😱😱😱
I need to change my antivirus ASAP!! What do you all recommend?!
#Antivirus #Privacy
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