'Hundreds' of staffers in marketing analytics subsidiary to be hit
Avast will pull the plug on Jumpshot, its controversial data analytics business, after it was revealed the company was harvesting its users' data.
The Brit antivirus firm ran into trouble last month when a security researcher, Wladimir Palant, found that the company's Firefox browser extensions were collecting customers' browsing data, including URLs of sites they had visited, and per-device unique IDs, and selling it, apparently deanonymised, to customers such as Revlon, Tripadvisor and Intel.
The extensions were booted out of the Mozilla and Google web stores following the story. In response, Avast said it had stopped gathering people's data "for any other purpose than the core security ..
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