Trend Micro has confirmed reports that some of its Mac consumer products were silently sending users’ browser history to its servers, and apologised to customers for any “concern they might have felt.” However, in an advisory on its blog,the well-known internet security firm maintained that all collected data was “safe and at no point was compromised.” Furthermore, Trend Micro claims that the data collection was not a secret – as users should have spotted they were agreeing to the data collection when they approved the software’s EULA at installation. Yeah, because we all know that users read the license agreement when they install software – right?

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