Avast to End Browser Data Harvesting, Terminates Jumpshot 'As CEO of Avast, I feel personally responsible and I would like to apologize to all concerned,' wrote Ondrej Vlcek following a ...

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Avast said Thursday that it will wind down its data-collection service, Jumpshot, in response to concerns that it was collecting personal information about users from its free antivirus programs ...

Czech Authorities to Investigate Avast Over Sale of Users' Browser Histories 'There is a suspicion of a serious and extensive breach of the protection of users’ personal data,' the Czech Republic's ...

UK-based cybersecurity firm Avast will be fined $16.5m by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for selling customer web browsing data to third parties. This broke Avast promises that its products ...

Suppose you want to block ads or find a deal on a product; thus a browser extension could come in handy. Just a simple download from the browser’s extension store, and you are ready to rock holiday ...

More than three million internet users are believed to have installed 15 Chrome, and 13 Edge extensions that contain malicious code, security firm Avast said today. But despite the presence of code to ...

Ondrej Vlcek, chief executive officer of Avast, has defended his company's sales of aggregated user data, though one critic has accused it of creating “spyware.” Avast, the multibillion-dollar Czech ...