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<blockquote data-quote="RejZoR" data-source="post: 874511" data-attributes="member: 57233"><p>They actually share it for free. It's a mutual agreement among AV vendors as everyone participating gets each others samples. But they don't hand them over processed data (which is a very valuable asset these days and probably best kept secret), they just share samples and then it's whatever AV vendor's job to process and classify them on their own. These cloud systems still classify and gather unknown files and feed them to their cloud so there is still a lot of data collected. But is really non issue to privacy as it's just binaries that are shared.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RejZoR, post: 874511, member: 57233"] They actually share it for free. It's a mutual agreement among AV vendors as everyone participating gets each others samples. But they don't hand them over processed data (which is a very valuable asset these days and probably best kept secret), they just share samples and then it's whatever AV vendor's job to process and classify them on their own. These cloud systems still classify and gather unknown files and feed them to their cloud so there is still a lot of data collected. But is really non issue to privacy as it's just binaries that are shared. [/QUOTE]
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