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AVG is selling your browser history data!

Sep 16th, 2015
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  1. In there new privacy policy they state in the section "What do you collect that cannot identify me?"
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  3. http://www.avg.com/gb-en/privacy-new?A=#what-do-you-collect-that-cannot-identify-me
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  5. We collect non-personal data to make money from our free offerings so we can keep them free, including: Advertising ID associated with your devices Browsing and search history, including meta data; Internet service provider or mobile network you use to connect to our products; and Information regarding other applications you may have on your device and how they are used. Sometimes browsing history or search history contains terms that might identify you. If we become aware that part of your browsing history might identify you, we will treat that portion of your history as personal data, and will anonymize this information. We may also aggregate and/or anonymize personal data we collect about you. For instance, although we would consider your precise location to be personal data if stored separately, if we combined the locations of our users into a data set that could only tell us how many users were located in a particular country, we would not consider this aggregated information to be personally identifiable.
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  7. Even though they state that if they find that could identify you then they will remove it. but they only say if they will remove it if they can detect it.
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  9. They later state in "Do you share my data?"
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  11. http://www.avg.com/gb-en/privacy-new?A=#do-you-share-my-data
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  13. Yes, though when and how we share it depends on whether it is personal data or non-personal data. AVG may share non-personal data with third parties and may publicly display aggregate or anonymous information.
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  15. further down the article under "What rights do I have over my data?"
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  17. http://www.avg.com/gb-en/privacy-new?A=#what-rights-do-i-have-over-my-data
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  19. You have the right to opt out of the use or collection of certain data, including personal data and non-personal data, by following the instructions here. http://www.avg.com/gb-en/privacy-preferences That link just takes you to instructions on how opt out of the new letter newsletter.
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  21. This wrong on so many levels
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