Avast will shut down its marketing subsidiary Jumpshot following controversy over selling user data to third parties
Avast's CEO said the move is “absolutely the right thing to do.” — Avast is winding down its subsidiary Jumpshot following an explosive investigation into the sale …
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Discussion
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@ron_n
Ron Nussey
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New post from Avast CEO “For these reasons, I - together with our board of directors - have decided to terminate the Jumpshot data collection and wind down Jumpshot's operations, with immediate effect.” https://blog.avast.com/... cc @larakiara @josephfcox @swodinsky
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@laurenjohnson
Lauren Johnson
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Avast is shutting down analytics firm Jumpshot over selling web tracking data to brands https://press.avast.com/.... Cannes parent co Ascential also says that it's selling back its 35% stake after valuing Jumpshot at $173 million in July: https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
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@mikko
@mikko
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After stock drops by 20% on privacy violation news, the company reacts by shutting down their subsidiary that was selling the usage data. https://twitter.com/...
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@sosowski
Sos Sosowski
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That's a good reaction, but this should never happen. (tl;dr Avast Antivirus was selling data including user mouse clicks to third parties for $$$). Between Avast, CCleaner and Kaspersky, I have less and less trust towards any closed source software. https://twitter.com/...
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@iblametom
Thomas Brewster
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It's a serious reversal from Avast. It has even bought back the 35% share of Jumpshot (its data selling subsidiary) it sold to Ascential in order to shut it down... It's ditching tens of millions of yearly revenue in the process. https://twitter.com/...
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@joshis_tweets
Petr Dvorak
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A message to @avast_antivirus CEO @AvastVlk: You made the best decision you could have made. 👏https://blog.avast.com/ ...
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@wolfiechristl
Wolfie Christl
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So, Avast claims it will stop selling user data and their CEO states ‘I feel personally responsible’. Anyway, if they didn't already, the Czech DPA must urgently start an investigation about Avast's past and future data practices. https://www.forbes.com/...
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@edbott
Ed Bott
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Alexa, show me what a guilty party does when they get caught. https://twitter.com/...
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@dylanljmartin
Dylan Martin
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Props to @motherboard and @PCMag for the investigation that led to this. Pretty swift action. https://twitter.com/...
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@martijn_grooten
Martijn Grooten
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Avast decides to shut down Jumpshot, which is pretty much the only thing they could do https://blog.avast.com/... Pro-tip: if your company has grown pretty large, hire some privacy expert(s) to assess the privacy impact of the various things you do, before @josephfcox finds out