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‘As CEO of Avast, I feel personally responsible and I would like to apologize to all concerned,’ wrote Ondrej Vlcek following a PCMag-Motherboard investigation into the privacy risks around the data harvesting.

Ondrej Vlcek在PCMag-Motherboard对数据收集周围的隐私风险进行调查后写道：“作为Avast的首席执行官，我个人有责任，我要向所有相关人员道歉。”

By Michael Kan

由 迈克尔·侃

Avast will no longer sell users ‘ browser histories to third-party companies, the antivirus vendor said, following a PCMag-Motherboard investigation into the privacy risks around the data collection.

防病毒厂商表示，在PCMag-Motherboard 对数据收集周围的隐私风险进行调查之后，Avast将不再将用户的浏览器历史出售给第三方公司。

Late on Wednesday, Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek announced his company plans to shut down operations at Jumpshot, the subsidiary in charge of selling the browser history data. “As CEO of Avast, I feel personally responsible and I would like to apologize to all concerned,” he said in a statement.

周三晚，Avast首席执行官Ondrej Vlcek 宣布了他的公司计划关闭Jumpshot的运营，Jumpshot是负责销售浏览器历史数据的子公司。 他在一份声明中说：“作为Avast的首席执行官，我个人有责任感，我想向所有相关人员表示歉意。”

The popular antivirus vendor previously claimed it could “de-identify” people’s personal data from the browser history collection, thus preserving the user’s privacy. However, the investigation from PCMag and Motherboard found the contrary: the data that Jumpshot was selling to big brands and market research companies could be analyzed to easily link the website clicks to a specific Avast user, exposing a person’s internet activities.

流行的防病毒软件供应商先前声称，它可以从浏览器历史记录集合中“取消识别”人们的个人数据，从而保护用户的隐私。 但是，来自PCMag和Motherboard的调查发现相反的事实：可以分析Jumpshot出售给大品牌和市场研究公司的数据，以轻松地将网站点击链接到特定的Avast用户，从而暴露一个人的互联网活动。

The news has shaken consumer trust in the antivirus vendor, which serves 435 million users across the globe. Vlcek said he concluded the data harvesting “was not in line” with the company’s privacy priorities.

这一消息动摇了消费者对防病毒软件供应商的信任，该公司为全球4.35亿用户提供服务。 Vlcek说，他得出结论认为，数据收集“与公司的隐私优先级不符”。

“Protecting people is Avast’s top priority and must be embedded in everything we do in our business and in our products. Anything to the contrary is unacceptable,” he said. “For these reasons, I-together with our board of directors-have decided to terminate the Jumpshot data collection and wind down Jumpshot’s operations, with immediate effect.”

“保护人才是Avast的重中之重，必须植根于我们在业务和产品中所做的一切。 任何相反的情况都是不可接受的，”他说。 “由于这些原因，我与我们的董事会一起决定终止Jumpshot数据收集并立即终止Jumpshot的运营。”

In an investors’ call, Avast executives said the Jumpshot data collection will cease immediately. They also claimed the antivirus vendor had been considering shutting down the operation for months now.

在一次投资者电话会议中 ，Avast高管表示，Jumpshot数据收集将立即停止。 他们还声称，防病毒软件供应商已经考虑关闭该设备几个月了。

Back in October, the security researcher Wladimir Palant initially raised the privacy alarms about the data harvesting when he noticed Avast’s browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Opera were collecting the browser histories from people’s computers. The findings prompted the major browsers to temporarily remove the extensions until Avast implemented new privacy protections.

早在十月，安全研究员弗拉基米尔·帕randint(Wladimir Palant)最初就提出了有关数据收集的隐私警报，当他注意到Avast针对Chrome，Firefox和Opera的浏览器扩展正在从人们的计算机中收集浏览器历史记录时。 调查结果促使主要浏览器临时删除扩展，直到Avast实施新的隐私保护。

Despite the change, Avast was still managing to collect the browser histories through the company’s free antivirus software for desktop and mobile. As many as 100 million devices were pulled into the data collection, which was also harvesting people’s internet searches.

尽管进行了更改，Avast仍设法通过该公司针对台式机和移动设备的免费防病毒软件来收集浏览器的历史记录。 多达1亿台设备被带入数据收集，这也收获了人们的互联网搜索。

In an email on Thursday, Palant told PCMag the whole practice smacked of “gross negligence.” He was able to obtain an apparent sample of the data Jumpshot was selling to clients. The sold data includes URLs Avast users were visiting, but in many cases Avast’s “de-identification” process failed to strip away people’s personal information from the links, such as email addresses.

在周四的一封电子邮件中，Palant告诉PCMag，整个做法带有“严重过失”的气息。 他能够获得Jumpshot出售给客户的数据的明显样本。 出售的数据包括Avast用户访问的URL，但是在许多情况下，Avast的“去识别”过程未能从链接中剥离人们的个人信息，例如电子邮件地址。

“From the look of it, nobody ever bothered verifying that their approach is even remotely working -or somebody did but they simply didn’t care,” Palant said.

“从外观上看，没有人愿意验证他们的方法甚至可以远程工作-有人做了，但他们根本不在乎，” Palant说。

Avast has declined to answer questions on how the antivirus vendor “de-identifies” the collected browser histories. But the company maintains the data collection was legal, and compliant with Europe’s GDPR regulations.

Avast拒绝回答有关防病毒供应商如何“去识别”收集的浏览器历史记录的问题。 但是该公司坚持认为数据收集是合法的，并且符合欧洲的GDPR法规。

Although Jumpshot’s shutdown will affect more than 200 employees at the company subsidiary, Vlcek said the termination of the data harvesting is “absolutely the right thing to do.”

尽管Jumpshot的关闭将影响公司子公司的200多名员工，但Vlcek表示，终止数据收集“绝对是正确的做法”。

“I firmly believe it will help Avast focus on and unlock its full potential to deliver on its promise of security and privacy,” Vlcek added. “And I especially thank our users, whose recent feedback accelerated our decision to take quick action.”

Vlcek补充说：“我坚信，它将帮助Avast专注并释放其全部潜力，以兑现其对安全性和隐私性的承诺。” “我特别感谢我们的用户，他们最近的反馈加快了我们采取快速行动的决定。”

The company last year sold a 35 percent stake in Jumpshot to a marketing company called Ascential. However, Avast has bought back the stake, and plans on winding down the operations later this year once it resolves all the employment and partnership issues. According to Jumpshot’s marketing, the company’s clients have included Google, Pepsi, Unilever, marketing firm Omnicom Media Group, and consulting firm McKinsey & Company, among others.

该公司去年将 Jumpshot的35％的股份出售给了一家名为Ascential的营销公司。 但是，Avast已回购了股份，并计划在解决所有雇佣和合伙关系问题后于今年晚些时候结束业务。 根据Jumpshot的市场营销，该公司的客户包括Google，百事可乐，联合利华，营销公司Omnicom Media Group和咨询公司McKinsey＆Company等。

Avast executives added the company doesn’t expect to face any legal action from the data harvesting.

Avast高管补充说，该公司预计不会因数据收集而面临任何法律诉讼。

In response to the news, US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) told Motherboard: “Avast’s past practice of marrying antivirus software with the secret mining of consumers’ data was a terrible move. But the decision today to shutter its data broker subsidiary is a model for how companies should respond to criticism of privacy abuses. To stop future abuses, Congress needs to pass my bill to hold companies and their CEOs accountable for abusing Americans’ personal information.”

为了回应这一消息，美国参议员罗恩·怀登(Ron Wyden)(俄勒冈州) 告诉主板：“ Avast过去将防病毒软件与消费者数据的秘密挖掘结合在一起的做法是一个可怕的举动。 但是，今天决定关闭其数据经纪子公司的决定，是企业应如何应对对隐私滥用的批评的典范。 为了制止将来的滥用，国会需要通过我的法案，要求公司及其首席执行官对滥用美国人的个人信息负责。”

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with more details from Avast’s call with investors, and comment from Senator Wyden.

编者注： 该故事已更新，其中包含Avast致电投资者的更多详细信息以及参议员Wyden的评论。

Originally published at https://www.pcmag.com.

最初发布在 https://www.pcmag.com 。

翻译自: https://medium.com/pcmag-access/avast-to-end-browser-data-harvesting-terminates-jumpshot-f5760fcd4cc2

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