“The FTC also said Avast stored this information indefinitely and sold it to over 100 third parties between 2014 and 2020 through their Jumpshot subsidiary.”
Avast sold privacy software that promised to block tracking, then sold its users’ browsing history to more than 100 buyers. Jumpshot amassed more than eight petabytes of it, and Omnicom got access to half the customer data from six countries. The penalty is $16.5 million for six years of it. Avast still says it disagrees with the facts.