Meta and Google mobile apps gorge on user data: Study
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Zuck's empire declares triple the appetite of Apple or Microsoft, while Google packs the leaderboard, dev survey shows
A study of mobile apps claims that Meta collects three times as much user data on average as tools published by Apple or Microsoft. Google is also one of the worst data-scavenging offenders.
The research was conducted by the reassuringly named Surfshark, a VPN and security tools provider. It found that Meta's apps were the most "data-hungry," declaring an average of 25 out of 35 possible data types, compared with seven or eight for apps from Apple and Microsoft.
The findings are based on privacy information submitted by developers to Apple's App Store, rather than independent observation of what the apps transmit. They count the number of data types an app may collect, not the amount or frequency of collection, and do not mean that every category is gathered from...
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