Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved its proposed settlement with Lenovo, Inc. over the installation of pre-installed advertising software called VisualDiscovery onto Lenovo laptops. According to the FTC, the pre-installed software “interfered with how a user’s browser interacted with websites and created serious security vulnerabilities.”
The settlement requires Lenovo to not misrepresent the features…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on September 5, 2017, that it has settled with Lenovo regarding allegations that Lenovo “harmed customers by pre-loading software on some laptops that compromised security protections in order to deliver ads to consumers.”
According to the FTC’s complaint against Lenovo, it pre-loaded “man in the middle” software, VisualDiscovery that…
