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Ink Is Dry On Final Lenovo/FTC Settlement

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On Jan. 2, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) finalized its settlement with Lenovo Inc. regarding charges that the computer giant engaged in some risky business with its customers' information.

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On Jan. 2, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) finalized its settlement with Lenovo Inc. regarding charges that the computer giant engaged in some risky business with its customers' information.

The original complaint, which was filed back in September 2017, alleged that Lenovo's VisualDiscovery software, which was preinstalled on some of the company's laptop models between 2014 and 2015, set itself up as a local proxy on each machine. When a laptop user browsed the internet, VisualDiscovery would sit in the middle, routing and observing IP traffic flowing between the laptop and the sites the user visited. The software could monitor any piece of sensitive data..

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