JAKARTA - Recent research conducted by experts in Information Technology (IT) structures reveals a number of applications that collect personal data of their users. This list includes popular applications.
There are game applications such as Roblox to social media such as TikTok and Instagram. This user data collection is carried out in exchange for free services offered by developers to the public. Usually, this data will be used for advertising needs.
Based on a report compiled by Marin Marinčić, an expert from Nsoft, this data is made based on official privacy reports submitted by each application developer to Apple. This means that Apple knows that these applications collect user data.
Meta's large family, namely Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads, ranks at the top as the most worrying application. These four applications share about 68.6 percent of user personal data with third parties.
Other social media apps such as LinkedIn, TikTok, and X are also listed as very active data collectors. Most of them use more than 50 percent of customer data to run the basic functions of the application.
Quite surprisingly, game apps such as Candy Crush Saga and Roblox are also included in the list of user data collection apps. However, each of these apps collects data for different needs.
Roblox does not share their data at all with third parties, while Candy Crush shares 8.6 percent of user data with third parties. For advertising needs, each of these applications utilizes more than 20 percent of its user data.
Duolingo is also on this list. The language education application is recorded as sharing 20 percent of its personal data with outside parties for analysis purposes. The WhatsApp Business app also needs to be watched because it requires 57.1 percent of personal information to function optimally.
Unlike the standard version, messages on WhatsApp Business do not use end-to-end encryption so that they can be read by the developer. The YouTube video platform is also known as a data collector by sharing 31.4 percent of its user information to outside companies.
On the other hand, Amazon collects a lot of information, but only shares less than 6 percent of its data with third parties. This retail company uses more user data to personalize its shopping experience.
When looking at this list of apps, be sure to always check the privacy report on the App Store or Play Store before downloading a new app. In addition, understand the details of what type of data will be taken and how the information will be used.
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