After a consumer protection initiative named AOL’s free client software to its “Badware Watch List” for exhibiting some characteristics found in spyware products, the Internet giant will make changes to its next version of its software, scheduled to release in a few months.
AOL said it will make the changes to its products to better inform users of the programs the software installs on their computers.
The news comes less than two weeks after the company in a massive breach of privacy released search queries from more than 600,000 users made over three months this year
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