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    1. Yellow Flag at  🏠‏ @WPalant Jan 8
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      I finished analyzing updates to Avast Online Security extension. It is indeed far more privacy friendly now and properly respecting user's choices. Quite surprising development given how they denied anything being wrong with it. #avast #privacy #spywarehttps://palant.de/2020/01/08/avast-complies-to-respect-users-privacy/ …

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    2. Yellow Flag at  🏠‏ @WPalant Jan 9
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      Got an email from Avast with some clarifications. In particular: "we completely discontinued the practice of using any data from the browser extensions for any other purpose than the core security engine." This is huge! Asked a few followup questions, will update blog post soon.

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    3. Tavis Ormandy‏Verified account @taviso Jan 9
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      How will they continue to provide their subsidiary with data?

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    4. Yellow Flag at  🏠‏ @WPalant Jan 9
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      No idea, and I honestly don't care. I just hope that "no data from browser extensions" doesn't mean "all data from antivirus application."

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      Tavis Ormandy‏Verified account @taviso Jan 9
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      I think it almost certainly does, seems unlikely they're going to close down the business... 🤷‍♂️ I just hope it's not even worse (SSL interception, browser code injection, etc)

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        2. Yellow Flag at  🏠‏ @WPalant Jan 9
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          I don't think that they would give up this business branch because of the public outcry. But the political pressure might have this effect. Being banned by the US gov might be a scary enough perspective, with antivirus business still outweighing data considerably.

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          It's also possible that somebody started looking into their GDPR violations. I'm not a lawyer but I'm fairly certain that not all of their practices were legit. This is another reason why they might be inclined to stop the operation ASAP, before the investigation is concluded.

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