Avast sold users data in millions of dollars buy why ?

The worldwide well-known entry virus company Avast has been mired in controversy due to wrong reasons. According to the report, the company has sold the data of its users to the world's big tech companies. The online website Motherboard has revealed during the investigation that Avast has sold users' data to other big companies like Google and Microsoft in the greed to earn millions of dollars.

This was how the data transfer of users was happening

After collecting data from computers across the world, Avast Anti-Virus users were transferred to subsidiary Jumpshot. Jumpshot used to prepare this data in a bundle and sell it to companies that use customer data in their products and targeted ads. In some cases, this data has been sold for millions of dollars. 

After all, why data was sold only to big companies

Among the companies to which Avast sold the data are companies such as Google, Intrust, Microsoft, Expedia, and Lauriel.

What kind of data was stolen

The data sold includes information from users on Google search, location search on maps as well as activity on LinkedIn and YouTube. Not only this, but the data of websites searched by the users has also been sold to the companies.

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Users did not have any information

Avast used to ask users to disassemble data sharing to collect data. Users did not know that Avast was going to sell their data to another website.

Microsoft retracted from this deal

Some companies have opted out of the matter after Avast reported the data leak. Microsoft says it no longer has any connection with Jumpshot. At the same time, Google has not yet given any response in this matter.

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