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Privacy-invasive software is a category of software that, whether malicious or not, invades its user's privacy to gather information about the user and their device without prior consent or knowledge.^[1] The data collected by privacy-invasive software is often used commercially, in which case, the data is either sold to advertisers or to other third-parties.^[2]

^ Boldt, Martin; Carlsson, Bengt (2006). "Privacy-Invasive Software and Preventive Mechanisms". 2006 International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC'06). p. 21. doi:10.1109/ICSNC.2006.62. ISBN 0-7695-2699-3. S2CID 15389209.
^ Boldt, Martin (2007). "Privacy-Invasive Software Exploring Effects and Countermeasures" (PDF). Blekinge Institute of Technology Licentiate Dissertation Series. 01.