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In February 2019<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Goodin |first=Dan |date=2019-07-18 |title=My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users |url=https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/07/dataspii-inside-the-debacle-that-dished-private-data-from-apple-tesla-blue-origin-and-4m-people/ |url-status=live |website=Ars Technica}}</ref>, Sam Jadali begins investigating suspicious browser extensions and the developers behind them. Over time he would find eight browser extensions, primarily for Chromium-based browsers, to be collecting sensitive data from unsuspecting users, which would then be sold for profit.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DataSpii |url=https://dataspii.com/ |url-status=live |website=dataspii.com}}</ref> This would compromise the private data of as many as 4 million Chrome and Firefox users. Also impacted were companies such as Bank of America, AT&T, and even the Pentagon.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jadali |first=Sam |date=2019-12-05 |title=Tweet by Sam Jadali |url=https://x.com/sam_jadali/status/1202691665451864064 |website=X}}</ref>  Each extension, as he reported them for their suspicious activity, would be removed from the Chrome Web store. However data collection '''continued for months after this'''. It's only in early July, when Google remotely disabled the extensions, that the data collection finally stopped.<ref name=":0" /> Though the disabled extensions had a notice saying, "This extension violates the Chrome Web Store policy.", the notice said nothing of the data collection or the selling of said data. At the same time the extensions could be forcibly re-enabled.<ref name=":0" />

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