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AVG TO SELL YOUR BROWSER HISTORY

Most of us use AVG, the third most popular antivirus product in the world according to expert market analysis. The antivirus company boasts about 9 percent share of the global market, 6 percent behind Avast and 13 percent behind Microsoft which stakes 23 percent of the market.[Source: OPSWAT] Recently, the company has announced a change in its privacy policy in which it boldly and openly admits that it will collect user details and sell them to online advertisers for the purpose of continuing to fund its free antivirus products. This new privacy policy is expected to come into effect as from 15 th October 2015 . Information expected to be collected includes: §   ID associated with user device §   Browsing and search history, including metadata; data that describes other data §   User internet service provider and/or mobile network §   Information regarding other user installed applications and how they are used The antivirus company stated that it would not sell personal data like nam