Avast CEO Says Company Will Shutter Data-Sucking Subsidiary, Apologizes for the Data-Sucking
The “global leader” in cybersecurity—Avast—announced today it would be shutting down its analytics arm Jumpshot that was recently found harvesting the data of the hundreds of millions installing Avast’s free browser extension. Apparently, the optics of a company that prides itself on privacy-forward approaches and…