…gathering data for targeted advertising. Remember, it used to be that if you weren’t paying for a product, you were the product; but today, even if you pay for the product, you’re still the product.
Being tracked and data-mined by your antivirus software is arguably worse than being tracked and data-mined by the websites you visit, and reasonable people can disagree on whether being tracked and data-mined is inherently bad or even bad at all. But for the record, we don’t pay for BoingBoing, so what does that make us?
