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Time for Class Action to Block Avast Settlement

by seasoned_geek

For those who don’t know, Avast got caught selling your data despite all of their claims to “privacy.” They now have a “settlement” with the FTC where they pay a token fine and agreed to “strict oversight.” We all know just how well “strict oversight” worked for Boeing. Manufacturing planes under “strict oversight” of the FAA and they still fell out of the sky. No Settlement Without Medium Security Prison Time for Management is Acceptable … Time for Class Action to Block Avast SettlementRead more

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The GDPR and Linux Distros

by seasoned_geek

If you use a general purpose Linux distro which pulls from somewhere else (and they all pull from somewhere else) then you’ve experienced it when you tried to file a bug. Tickets file against Linux distros fall into two primary categories. Let it rot until it can be closed due to no longer supported version Flag it closed and tell the user to report it “upstream.” Today’s rant is about the second category because it … The GDPR and Linux DistrosRead more