{"id":710005,"date":"2020-01-30T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=710005"},"modified":"2020-01-30T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:20:00","slug":"avast-ceo-says-company-will-shutter-data-sucking-subsidiary-apologizes-for-the-data-sucking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=710005","title":{"rendered":"Avast CEO Says Company Will Shutter Data-Sucking Subsidiary, Apologizes for the Data-Sucking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ls4vnt18bnzkurlwcwre.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.avast.com\/investors\/growth-opportunity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cglobal leader\u201d in cybersecurity<\/a>\u2014Avast\u2014announced today it would be shutting down its<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>analytics arm Jumpshot that was <a href=\"https:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?format=go&amp;jsonp=vglnk_158041429966311&amp;key=b7c8c670b7fda5a86f406ea51bd7cdf6&amp;libId=k614xu4401020gme000DAc7g1rtzl&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.windowscentral.com%2Favast-shut-down-jumpshot-following-reports-data-collection&amp;v=1&amp;out=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vice.com%2Fen_us%2Farticle%2Fqjdkq7%2Favast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation&amp;ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&amp;title=Avast%20to%20shut%20down%20Jumpshot%20following%20reports%20of%20data%20collection%20%7C%20Windows%20Central&amp;txt=joint%20investigation%20from%20Vice%20and%20PCMag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recently found harvesting the data<\/a> of the hundreds of millions installing Avast\u2019s free browser extension. Apparently, the optics of a company that <a href=\"https:\/\/press.avast.com\/new-release-of-avast-secure-browser-delivers-deeper-consumer-privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prides itself on privacy-forward approaches and\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/avast-ceo-says-company-will-shutter-data-sucking-subsid-1841361633\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Gizmodo &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/avast-ceo-says-company-will-shutter-data-sucking-subsid-1841361633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Avast CEO Says Company Will Shutter Data-Sucking Subsidiary, Apologizes for the Data-Sucking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cglobal leader\u201d in cybersecurity\u2014Avast\u2014announced today it would be shutting down its\u00a0analytics arm Jumpshot that was recently found harvesting the data of the hundreds of millions installing Avast\u2019s free browser extension. Apparently, the optics of a company that prides itself &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=710005\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":710006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,110],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-710005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gizmodo","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-gizmodo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=710005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/710006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}