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Meta and Google mobile apps gorge on user data: Study
Surfshark said Meta apps averaged 25 of 35 possible data types, far more than Apple or Microsoft apps.
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Meta and Google mobile apps gorge on user data: Study
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 App…
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