https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kzxzy/senator-mark-warner-ftc-not-doing-enough-on-browsing-data-avast-antivirus

On Monday Motherboard and PCMag published a joint investigation which found hugely popular free antivirus Avast is harvesting and selling its users' browsing data to some of the biggest companies in the world. In response, Senator Mark Warner said the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not doing enough to police this sort of data selling.

The news comes at a time of renewed focus on the sale of private data, be that by private businesses or some government departments.