Symantec, McAfee settle with New York

SYMANTEC AND MCAFEE have agreed to pay the state of New York $750,000 as a penalty for renewing customers’ software subscriptions without clearly telling the punters that they would do so automatically.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo had accused Symantec and McAfee of having an auto-renewal subscription policy which was about as transparent as the Great Wall of China.

By: theinquirer.net   Read more >>

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