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F-Secure Spyware Information Pages: BroadCastPC
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Summary
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| BroadCastPC tracks a user's surfing habits in order to display targeted advertisement broadcasts. No privacy policy for BroadCastPC is available and how collected information is treated is undisclosed. Advertisement broadcasts can be displayed even when the user is not online. |
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Detailed Description
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BroadCastPC is Spyware that tracks the users surfing habits. Each user is assigned a unique ID and, when suitable, a targeted group is selected for an advertisement broadcast. The software pre-loads the advertisement and when the broadcast is due to go out, the user is shown the advertisement locally. The amount of advertisement is very limited.
The software is difficult to disable. The only option given to the user is to hide the system tray icon, which leaves the software running in the background.
BroadCastPC has a very limited EULA and no privacy policy. How BroadCastPC collects data is undisclosed. How any information is handled is also not defined.
To use BroadCastPC, users can sign up and recommend it to friends by supplying an e-mail address and a name. There is no privacy policy on how this information is being handled. F-Secure strongly advised users not to send any e-mail addresses or names to BroadCastPC.
BroadCastPC is generally bundled with free software as an ad-support product. |
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Last Modified: January 01, 2006
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