Security company AVG recently announced its updated consumer privacy policy. The new policy explicitly allows the retention of browser history and right of the company to sell this information to third parties.
The new policy will come into force by 15 in October, but it has already come to the attention of data protection advocates.
The company states in the new privacy policy, in the paragraph entitled "What do you collect that cannot identify me?":
We collect non-personally data to earn money from freelancing product us so we can keep it free. This information includes:
The ad ID associated with your device
Browsing and search histories, including metadata
The internet service provider or mobile network you use to connect with our products and services
Information about other applications you may have on your device and how they are used.
Do you share my data? ή Do you share my data?
Yes, although it depends on whether the data is personal. AVG may share non-personal data with third parties and may display aggregate or anonymous information publicly.
If you want to read all of AVG's new policy, you can do it from the page Privacy Policy.
The Wired UK she spoke with her representatives AVG stated that the feature collectionof search and browsing history also existed in previous versions of the privacy policy, but with different wording. Previous versions of the policy stated that AVG could collect data on "search terms", but did not make it clear that the data could be collected and sold to third parties.
Alexander Hanff, Managing Director of Think Privacy, said:
"It is utterly immoral to the fullest extent possible to misuse the trust we place in security software"
What is the impact this will have on AVG, which is currently the world's third-largest vendor software vendor, no one knows.
There are a lot of users who are used to clicking "I agree" before reading the terms of the contract.
To see what will change now that the subject has not gone in fine print.
