Trend Micro has confirmed reports that some of its Mac consumer products were silently sending users browser history to its servers. The internet security firm maintained that all collected data was safe and at no point was compromised Trend Micro claims that the data collection was not a secret as users should have spotted they were agreeing to the collection when they approved the softwares EULA at installation. Trend Micro says that the code was designed to help the software determine if users had recently encountered online threats and yet the software was also incorporated into products which were not security-related.”]

