Lenovo managed to make a settlement in a judgment of conviction that it "won" when it went to trial for thecase of the software Superfish VisualDiscovery that violated the privacy of consumers but also their security on the internet.
“In early 2014, Lenovo and Superfish began a business partnership to install a Superfish software called VisualDiscovery on 28 models of Lenovo laptops. VisualDiscovery was not disclosed to consumers,” it says indictment (PDF).
According to a post “SuperFish VulnerabilityPosted by Lenovo on the company's support page and after the discovery of pre-installed software by consumers, VisualDiscovery software was designed to run in the background, blocking HTTP (S) traffic and with the help of a self-signed root certificate could be decrypted and tracked all traffic, encrypted or not.
Lenovo's post on SuperFish preloaded software states that the following Lenovo Notebooks are affected:
E-Series, Edge Series, Flex-Series, G-Series, Miix-Series, S-Series, U-Series, Y-Series, Yoga-Series, and Z-Series.
Consumers who filed the treatment class action against Lenovo, for its Superfish software, alleging that it degraded the performance of their computers by constantly usingconditions of the system to serve ads.
"VisualDiscovery was installed on nearly 800.000 Lenovo laptops sold in the United States from September 1, 2014 to February 28, 2015," the agreement also states.
On January 18, 2015, in response to growing complaints about the effects of VisualDiscovery, Lenovo published guidelines foractivation of server-level malware.
The settlement agreement also states that Lenovo must make payments of $ 7.300.000.
Of the 800.000 who bought VisualDiscovery-containing laptops, 500.000 who acquired their devices from Lenovo or bought them from retailers such as Best Buy and Amazon should contact the Chinese company immediately to find out about the settlement. .
For the rest of the inaccessible customers, Lenovo will use multiple online advertising platforms, from Google, Twitter and Facebook to inform them.
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