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Surprise: Your Free Antivirus is Tracking and Selling Your Private Data

From The Category5.TV Newsroom Episode 641
February 5, 2020

It turns out free security solutions may come at the cost of all your browsing data: Avast's free antivirus tracks users' online behavior and mines the data for companies like Microsoft, Pepsi, and Google.

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