Google and Mozilla Remove Extension That Was Caught Selling User Data


An examination by German open supporter NDR uncovered that MyWOT (WOT, or Web Of Trust) has been offering client information to outsiders without legitimately anonymizing client data, which at times uncovered the client's genuine character and insights about his perusing propensities.

Taking after NDR's discoveries, both Google and Mozilla have expelled the augmentation from their extra entrances.

WOT offering ineffectively anonymized client information

As indicated by the German supporter, its journalists could access a specimen that contained ten billion URLs WOT clients had gotten to.

While WOT asserted it mixed information to shroud the client's personality, journalists said it was anything but difficult to recognize intimations in the URLs that associated the connection with a username, email address, or name.

Columnists found data about police examinations, a judge's sexual inclinations, and client hunt down medications, whores, and medicinal issues.

WOT asserts on its sites that more than 140 million clients had downloaded and introduced the application amid its 10+ years history. Incidentally, the augmentation's motivation is to give data on the notoriety of sites that clients are attempting to get to, on the off chance that they're ok for children, contain spam, are dependable, or don't regard client security.

WOT's Privacy Policy expresses that its augmentations will catch information, for example,


  • Your Internet Protocol Address; 
  • Your geographic area (e.g., France, Canada, and so forth.); 
  • The kind of gadget, working framework and programs you utilize; 
  • Date and time stamp; 
  • Perusing utilization, including went to site pages, clickstream information or web address got to; 
  • Program identifier and client ID; 

Promote down the Privacy Policy page, WOT states that "we will catch anonymized click stream information, you're perusing use, areas you peruse, all as nitty gritty above."

The NDR report broadcast on November 1, 2016, and gave confirm that not just WOT neglected to appropriately anonymize the information, yet it was likewise offering it to intrigued outsiders. The WOT Privacy Policy expressed that WOT may "share" client information with its parent organization and accomplices, however did not say anything about "offering."

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