Tag: Avast

• Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data

  31 January 2020

  Written by Joseph Cox on Motherboard.

  “The data obtained by Motherboard and PCMag includes Google searches, lookups of locations and GPS coordinates on Google Maps, people visiting companies' LinkedIn pages, particular YouTube videos, and people visiting porn websites. It is possible to determine from the collected data what date and time the anonymized user visited YouPorn and PornHub, and in some cases what search term they entered into the porn site and which specific video they watched.”

  LK: I read all claims of “anonymised”/“can’t be de-anonymised” with skepticism.

  Read ‘Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data’ on the Motherboard site.

  Tagged with: browsing traffic, Avast, jumpshot.