AVG Sells Out

AVG enforces a new policy allowing them to sell user data to third party companies. AVG said they can collect data based on the "words we search." While all this seems scary, we can still hope that AVG wont be trying to get us into any troubles along the road.

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AVG enforces a new policy allowing them to sell user data to third party companies. AVG said they can collect data based on the “words we search.” While all this seems scary, we can still hope that AVG wont be trying to get us into any troubles along the road.

John Marquez, Tech Reporter
October 2, 2015

            AVG is anti-virus software that many PC and mobile users depend on daily. Having such a high amount of users, AVG has decided to enforce a new policy that would allow the company to sell user data to third party companies.

            AVG is free and is a decent program, however in order to maintain that price AVG will be selling the user’s search and browsing searches. Previous versions of the program did however state that the company could enforce the policy, but with the new update it will be worded in the EULA more clearly.

Many claim this procedure is very unethical given the fact that anti-virus programs are given so much access to our data. This new policy has people thinking why they would buy a program to protect from harmful software, when the program itself has the same effects of the harmful software?