Hi folks, Im not an Avast user but have been contacted by a friend that my location is being posted to his cell phone. How is this possible and without me activating or having Avast anti theft on my Cell phone?
It has NOTHING to do with avast … all cell phones can be tracked this way, if you don’t like it, alter your phone settings, turn off Geo location.
Thanks Adrian, the message came up stating it was from Avast Cell Tracking. It keeps posting my location on his phone, Ive a new Cell No, and never activated any Avast Apps, or given permissions to be tracked. Excuse my ignorance about these things but I’m not a techno guy, rather too old to know half the stuff on these cell phones.I also have very serious privacy issues due to the work I am involved in.
Avast uses tracking as do most other apps.
Windows8 wants all users to agree to Geo location tracking so that the apps can serve you content pertaining to yur current location.
Android (Google) phones know your location 24/7 and many available apps track not only your position, but read your contacts, messages and log your phone calls.
Always read what permissions applications require, some are very intrusive.
Assuming you have an Android smart phone , look for privacy applications. I also use Android Assistant, that helps clear memory, data etc. it has many tools and will show you what permissions applications use.
Well here it should read legal tracking. What is illegal about trackin’?
Tracking to hit you from a drone (Geo-cell) might be illegal under certain circumstances 
, but apps tracking is done everywhere and many look upon it as a normal feature when using mobile services.
Geo-location can be a nuisance sometimes. For instance you are with your phone in another town nearing your mobile provider and they sent you a message to say you just localized outside their shop and do you want to buy so and so. That is tracking and it may seem intrusive. Just like ad-blocking there should be an opportunity to turn it off, when you do not like to be stalked by apps all of the time. But the opposition to this does not come from the users but from elsewhere as one can easily imagine.
Alas peripherals like smartphones and other peripherals have become much more monopolisticly invasive and intrusive and less and less user friendly because you find yourself in a sort of a hive or grid, that you did not choose yourself. Finally the webstore calls the shots.
polonus
Are you using a second-hand phone which had Avast installed on it previously?
If so there may be more steps to removing its anti-theft features than just setting up a new user/number.