Avast, the company built long ago by offering Windows users the privacy and security Microsoft didn't care for, was fined $16.5m for storing and selling customer information without consent. Cory Doctorow wrote about it here when they were first caught in 2019, and now you can stick a fork in it. — Read the rest
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