Tech Firm to Pay $3.5M in Settlement Over Preloaded Software

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A technology company will pay $3.5 million and change how it sells laptop computers as part of a settlement reached with federal officials and 32 states.
The agreement with Lenovo announced Tuesday settles allegations that the North Carolina-based firm sold devices with preloaded software that made users’ sensitive personal information vulnerable to hackers.
The VisualDiscovery software was installed on hundreds of thousands of laptops to deliver pop-up ads to c