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It turns out your antivirus software might be spying on you too. The more we learn about privacy, the less it seems we have. Here's the story about Avast and its subsidiary, Jumpshot: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation.

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