Avast Is Going To Stop Selling Your Web Habits
Avast, one of the world’s biggest antivirus and security companies, announced plans to wind up its subsidiary Jumpshot after a privacy furor erupted over the last two months.
With 400 million users, the potential for privacy infringements was great. Data sold to companies like Google, Microsoft, Home Depot and many other companies included information about websites people visited, including porn sites and what specific videos they watched and more.
