Does avast read/sell your contacts and/or text messages info?

[july]

Does avast read your Contacts info and/or your text messages and in any way sell/give this information to advertisers, third parties, or in any way use this information in a manner that is not strictly related to its security function?

[Johnny4745]

Does avast read your Contacts info and/or your text messages and in any way sell/give this information to advertisers, third parties, or in any way use this information in a manner that is not strictly related to its security function?

Read this:
http://www.avast.com/privacy-policy

[july]

I did.  But I still wasn't absolutely clear about the answers to my question.

[avast@@dvantage77.com]

No sir, but the US government does!

[july]

Well I know about the government  !, but I didn't know if Avast is any better!  It wasn't clear to me from their privacy statement.

[bob3160]

Since most of us here are simply avast! users like yourself, the only information we can pass along is the
link that Johnny4745 provided. :0

[avast@@dvantage77.com]

Our problem with Privacy is not avast!, however, the privacy war has already been lost:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/24/network_security_is_bad_and_its_going_to_get_worse/

[bob3160]

Our problem with Privacy is not avast!, however, the privacy war has already been lost:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/24/network_security_is_bad_and_its_going_to_get_worse/

That however has nothing to do with Avast.